Chicken and the Egg aka. OS X and software
With all the hype about OS X being released in just a few weeks, some are starting to wonder if there will be enough software available to warrant the upgrade to the next generation operating system. Many believe the answer is no. Not even Microsoft Office will be ready in time for the release. Microsoft isn’t expected to ship Office for X until the fall, and that is if they stay on track. Many other developers are holding off to see if the new OS becomes accepted by the Mac community, thus creating an eternal loop. What comes first, the software for OS X, or the users to use the software.
Someone will have to budge. It will either be the software developers or the Mac community. Who will it be? Many software developers have pledged to develop software for OS X, but not too many developers have actually said that they will have software available for OS X upon it’s release. Of course you can run classic software in OS X, one wonders why upgrade if there is no need. OS X will be using more memory, and classic runs on top of OS X thus there is a slight slow down.
This is not to say that software won’t be developed right away, but I do believe that it will take a few months for the OS to really kick off and for development to boom. Once the summer comes and machines start shipping with OS X on them then developers should really start to see that OS X is here to stay. Thus my prediction is that OSX is going to start off slow then snowball into a very popular OS.
This will cause one more side effect, what about those who don’t have G3 based computers and can’t run OS X, will developers still develop software for this market? Are they going to be left in the dark as the 68k group did back in the mid 90’s?
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