I was half-kidding and half-serious with my "make XP a system requirement for Intel Macs." Because I had an opportunity several months back, I bought an inexpensive G4 to play around with and so that BMax could live happily cross-platform, making it possible to do releases for Mac as well as Windows.
Any Mac releases that I might do will be for PPC Mac with 10.3+ since I don't currently plan to buy 10.4 or an Intel Mac. But, now that Intel Macs with 10.4 can run XP, and Windows is my main platform, they get automatic support if they use Boot Camp/XP. I have little faith in Rosetta (emulation has never been worthwhile from what I've seen), though I cetainly wouldn't mind being surprised.
Intel Macs will probably become the new Mac standard (or maybe not - Apple is sometimes whacky with hardware standards), and the older PPC market will be going away over time. So eventually, future Mac releases will need to be primarily aimed at Intel Macs with 10.4+ and thus developed on the same hardware/OS. But for the near-term future, I view them as a small subset of the already small Mac market.
I'd be more concerned if I had a large software investment in my G4 and used it as my main PC, but my only real reason for having it is BMax. For folks with PPC Macs as their main/only PC, hopefully the big publishers of Mac software will offer something like inexpensive "side-grades" to let their customers make the switch from PPC to Intel Mac.
Any Mac releases that I might do will be for PPC Mac with 10.3+ since I don't currently plan to buy 10.4 or an Intel Mac. But, now that Intel Macs with 10.4 can run XP, and Windows is my main platform, they get automatic support if they use Boot Camp/XP. I have little faith in Rosetta (emulation has never been worthwhile from what I've seen), though I cetainly wouldn't mind being surprised.
Intel Macs will probably become the new Mac standard (or maybe not - Apple is sometimes whacky with hardware standards), and the older PPC market will be going away over time. So eventually, future Mac releases will need to be primarily aimed at Intel Macs with 10.4+ and thus developed on the same hardware/OS. But for the near-term future, I view them as a small subset of the already small Mac market.
I'd be more concerned if I had a large software investment in my G4 and used it as my main PC, but my only real reason for having it is BMax. For folks with PPC Macs as their main/only PC, hopefully the big publishers of Mac software will offer something like inexpensive "side-grades" to let their customers make the switch from PPC to Intel Mac.