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>  >Also,
>>Emagic can jettison the PC programmers - or use them for other purposes
>>within Apple - maybe porting Quicktme 6 to windows or iPod to Windows.
>  >
>As a beta tester, I can tell you that I'd rather leave Emagic than be
>used for such purposes. I think that feeling goes for most testers.
>And I don't think what you say is possible either. Apple and Emagic are
>not "that" integrated (yet).

It occurs to me that not that many Emagic programmers are 
specifically Mac or Windows.

Remember a few years ago, Gerhard announced that they had developed 
some sort of "unified development engine"  which allowed the program 
to be developed on an abstract layer -  some variant of C one would 
guess, and then compiled for ppc and x86 simultaneously.

This was annouced with much fanfare as it meant that delays in 
releasing Windows updates were eliminated. So most of the work is 
done in some other programming environment.  My guess is that  jobs 
are secure for most of the developers.

The real difference is on front line support staff and the beta 
program. In this area things will certainly change.

Apple doesn't need Emagic programming talent to take existing product 
to Windows - they do that already. QT as a media player already 
exists. QT as a content creator - I don't think will happen - Apple 
wants that market firmly located on their own hardware.
As for iPod - nice mp3 player, and a dandy file transfer device. But 
it assumes (even for recharging the battery)  Firewire. Wouldn't make 
sense until Dell, Gateway and every other pc OEM is including this 
facility on every machine. Given Intel's very public resistance to 
Firewire, I don't think this will ever happen. Too bad really, a 
gazillion pc users already have PCI to Firewire cards and are happily 
editing home movies from their DV cams. They don't care that the wire 
was developed by Apple any more than Mac users care that USB was 
developed by Intel. But Intel cares - which is why Firewire on the 
mobo will never happen on pc.