Daniel Eran Dilger
Just as pundits have worked to incite drama about the death of PowerPC, Apple’s two key development APIs in Mac OS X, Carbon and Cocoa, have been frequently personified as rivals dueling to the death. Will OS X 10.6 finally mark the end of Carbon?

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Ever since the Intel Mac transition was announced at WWDC 2005, pundits have been seeding worries that Apple would immediately pull the plug on PowerPC Macs. In 2006, the rumor mill stated Leopard would be Intel only; will OS X 10.6 finally mark the end of PowerPC support?

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