Advenio has announced a Transition Service to create Universal Binaries for developers:
With the recent announcement of Intel-based Macintosh computers many developers, particularly smaller shops, are left with the question of how to ensure that their applications will operate properly on the new machines. The last thing any developer wants is to have a potential customer download their application only to find it doesn’t run on their particular computer. While Rosetta may indeed do the work for you dynamically at runtime, do you really want to bank on it?
Apple has decided that only ADC Select and Premier members will have access to the Transition Kit. While Advenio qualifies, we know many of the 500,000 registered developers do not. Even those developers who do qualify may find the price a bit steep. One thousand dollars to perform a task that make take only a few hours. Add to that the fact that you must return the machine by next June.
Advenio is offering a Transition Service starting at just $100 (10% of the cost of the Transition Kit from Apple). We’ll enter an NDA with your company, you provide a working Xcode build, we perform the port and issue you full details of the changes and provide a Universal Binary of your application.
More info here.
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