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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by flomo on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:54PM (#16737950)
Yep, I think people tend to gloss over how smooth these transitions really were. From a creative professional perspective, they were huge short-term PITA until Adobe etc had everything ported over. Also Excel lost VBA support for several years.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by whatok on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:30PM (#16738333)
I remember everything audio was a mess although I'd imagine a lot of it had to do with smaller developers lacking resources to port existing software.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by emodendroket on Monday April 02, 2018 @04:08PM (#16738756)
Losing VBA support stinks, but do any professional Excel users even consider Office for Mac?
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by flomo on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:27AM (#16742807)
At least for me "professional Excel users" sent out stuff that I could not open, and that is not good for the for the platform.

"Spreadsheet macros" were like hot personal computing shit in 1983. Really not good if you cannot create them in 2008. , (Few complaints about the current Mac MS Office, FWIW) I'm just saying that breaking old stuff often takes year to fix.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by emodendroket on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:11PM (#16746117)
No, I get it. I just think that, in general, people who spend a big chunk of most of their work days using Excel kind of consider anything other than Windows MS Office Excel a non-starter.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by Eric_WVGG on Monday April 02, 2018 @04:42PM (#16739074)
Adobe's transition was somewhat rough because they took the Carbon route, and then had to do it again to switch over to Cocoa. I expect that now that all their apps are built on Cocoa, the transition will be relatively breezy.
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