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> You might, but how many others would follow? How many copies of
> CodeWarrior for Macintosh on this basis would Freescale/Metrowerks need
> to sell in order to break even?

That would depend on what MW could deliver in CW. If it's just the same
old old IDE with a dated interface but using gcc, that's not going to
fly. If MW can bring it up over time to a state of the art development
tool that go toe-to-toe with Xcode in most respects and beat it in
others as it does now with compile speed, code quality, and STL, then
it might stand a chance *if* MW can convince people they're in it for
the long haul.

> It strikes me, by the way, that you and Larry are not in agreement.
> Larry seems to require far more from CodeWarrior than you do.

Probably so. I think most people will.
>
> Now that we have the free Xcode, CodeWarrior is a premium product. To be
> popular, it needs a unique selling point. A superior PowerPC compiler
> and C++ library seem to be in CodeWarrior's favour at this time. If they
> are to continue selling the product, I see no reason for them to abandon
> these two.

Well, I would have thought that about their Windows cross-platform
capability too. ;-)
>
> Now, if they were able to introduce the Intel compiler well ahead of
> Apple, that would be a major coup. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Not at all likely. I would assume they're working on this in
cooperation with Apple, so it's not going to show up at MW first.

Larry