running mac universal apps on Windows

[benjags]

from macosrumors.com:

Apple's emphasis in the 10.5 era will be on resurrecting 'Yellow Box for Windows,' a set of Cocoa (and potentially also Carbon) API's for Windows that would allow Universal Binary applications to run on Windows with a mere 150MB software package installation. And best of all, there is no extra work to be done on the developer's part to get fully native, rock-solid stable performance from their Xcode-developed Universal applications on Windows

 

[thejadedmonkey]

I just saw this...I don't quite know what this means. Does this mean that Apple will be selling their iLife suit to XP users? This means Apple really is banking on their OS, and not their iLife/Application base.

Unless that Dvork guy was right all along...

 

[howesey]

It's like what X11 is for Macs, but will run Mac OS windows within Windows without having to use skinned Windows APIs.


It will not run universal binaries on Windows as they are compiled for OS X. However, it will make life easier when compiling for Windows because they can use Cocoa API's.

 

[Daveway]

This was published before Apple released Boot Camp. If you read the article, it toally contradicts what Apple is and will be doing.

This article is void, as is many things coming from that web site.

 

[arn]

macosrumors makes stuff up, literally.

arn