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<1113506862.124171.85800@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "jonhoyle@mac.com" <jonhoyle@mac.com> wrote:

> >>This also affected our Mac Hosted x86 cross compilers and we are not
> licensing the x86 tools any more.
> 
> I would think that continuing to license the x86 cross-compiler (even
> if it were for an extra cost) would help sell more of the Mac version.
> As long as the licensing fees you pay are passed along, what harm is
> there?  I'm confident that the majority of the Windows tools users are
> on the Mac anyway, so this decision will affect the Mac market more
> than the Windows market.
> 
> I don't think Metrowerks has thought a lot of this through, since many
> of the people who have chosen to stay with CodeWarrior are doing so
> because they know they can cross-compile.  Dropping this ability makes
> the switch to Xcode much more compelling.
> 
> Here's hoping that someone at Metrowerks does some actual customer
> analysis before going ahead with this decision.  It sounds like
> FreeScale is just knee-jerking "We don't do well in the Windows market,
> so we'll drop the x86 compiler on every platform" without taking into
> account the value of the x86 compiler in the Mac market.
> 
> Jonathan Hoyle

I really don't think you guys want to make the threat of dropping
CodeWarrior and going with Xcode because it's free.  Because if
that happens, and Metrowerks goes the embedded tools only route,
we'll have no alternative to Apples Xcode.

If you haven't noticed, the trend with Apple is that, they get
people dependant upon something that was bundled and then turn it
into a separate unbundled, revenue generating product.

Looking at 10.4 it no longer comes the with applications iMovie or
iPhoto.  They are now sold as part of a separate software bundle.

I really believe this is what will be happening with Apples
developer tools.

Sure the GNU compiler and tool chain will be available as part of
the free developer tools.  But I'll bet the higher level tools
Xcode, Interface Builder, CHUD, Shark and etc. will become a
separate extra charge software bundle.