Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Jun 2007 15:58 UTC, submitted by Jeremy Fox
Carbon will not be 64bit in Leopard. "At last year's keynote, Apple had claimed that both Carbon and Cocoa would be 64-bit, adding to the 64-bit fundamentals that Tiger had laid. However, according to the latest on Apple's website, Leopard's 64-bit frameworks will include the POSIX and math libraries found in Tiger, Cocoa, Quartz, OpenGL, and X11 GUI framework. In addition, Apple confirms that Carbon will not be 64-bit on the Carbon Developer mailing list." In addition, the readme file included with Leopard's developer preview says G3 support will be dropped from Leopard.
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2006-01-25
I think we're going for Apple's Vista. My gut feeling is that Apple is reaching their peak and Leopard or Leopard+1 is going to be like Vista. The signs are starting, delays (6 month delay so far), dropping features (ZFS, this), rushing (severe stability problems currently, even in released Safari beta), etc... I think Apple is just putting to much under their belt, and they just aren't ready for it yet. If they ever are (its harder to produce quality products as your company gets bigger and has more products)
I know this is getting rated -5, but thats just my opinion on this subject.