It shows a commitment, and it also makes it so they just have one last thing to worry about. It almost feels like closing the loop… Like, okay, the one last thing that wasn’t totally Apple in my ecosystem is now Apple, and they’re just really excited about it. Mac developers very often have been sharing with iOS for years and years and years already… They’re using the same tooling. The thing that’s funny that we’re having now as a comparison – I actually just talked with Ken Case over at Omni the other day, and his comment was like it’s like coming home.
There was endianness to deal with… People had been making the 64-bit move recently with PowerPC, then the Intel was going to be 32-bit initially, so there were some different things going on then… And bluntly, at the time, most people weren’t Xcode users, so it was a big tooling change for a lot of people. There was a lot more technical difficulty. It was funny - I think everybody compares this transition to the PowerPC one, and I was lucky enough to be here 15-odd years ago when we did that… And I think it’s apt in that it’s the Mac, and it was an architecture change, and such… But in so many ways it’s a completely different world than when that happened.įor one thing, almost no Mac developers at that time had worked with Intel, so for them it was a fundamentally big shift.
Yeah, it’s been a really fun ride, and there’s something that I think we learn quite a bit from each step.
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