Nat Linden wrote:
However, at this moment in history, one must ask how important it still is to support Mac OS X <= 10.4?
I'm completely ignorant about today's marketshare of Mac OS X 10.4, but I can tell you I'd rather like to see it supported for a while. Personally, I own an i686 machine with Mac OS X 10.6 and a PPC machine with Mac OS X 10.4. The latter is quite old and won't be able to pull anything more modern than 10.4. Therefore my only option for PPC testing is under Mac OS X 10.4.
Mmm, I have no hard data either (anyone?) -- but it seems to me that the importance of testing on OS X 10.4 depends not only on how many such machines are still in use, but on how many of those machines the owners are still installing new software.
I agree completely to your line of reasoning. I'm an example of a 10.4 machine owner that still installs new software, but again, one person is a small sample size. -Julian