“Moving 100% to Snow Leopard not only makes the development easier and faster for us, but also it makes your favorite image editor a much better app and also an environmentally cleaner app (considering that the environment is the Mac OS X),” Dailide writes. “Other reasons for the move are obvious: new technologies that we can take advantage of, old show-stopping technologies that we can get rid of, an extremely fast growing number of Snow Leopard users (our web stats are our intel), happier developers (us), and so on and on and on.”
Dailide writes, “In other words, we just love developing for Mac and wish to take advantage of the best that Mac can give.”
“For those of you who are still running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, I can say that even though it is a good OS, I really hope that Pixelmator 1.6 Nucleus will encourage you to upgrade to an even better OS – Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard,” Dailide writes. “Or if you can’t or don’t want to move to Snow Leopard, Pixelmator 1.5.1 Spider (still one of the best apps) will be there for you for awhile.”:
Dailide writes, “I just wanted to let you know about this move (which is very big, especially considering the huge number of Pixelmator users out there) so that you could prepare yourself if necessary.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Pixelmator is a testament to what’s possible when developers code for specific platforms’ strengths versus lazily excreting lowest common denominator bloat dumbed-down for multiple platforms. RIght, Adobe?
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