In the US I believe their is a time table for the minimum number of years a company has to support a product that they have on the market. As I recall Apple has lost a few court cases where they have not fully supported computers with newer versions of the OS for long enough. A bigger problem with not supporting PPC systems with 10.5 comes in the economics of it. Apple will want to sell updates to thier current install base when 10.5 comes out, if they dont support PPC systems with it then they can't sell the system software to the largets part of their install base.
also developers will want as many people to get their products as possible - extending the life of Fat Binaries
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Originally posted by @homenow
In the US I believe their is a time table for the minimum number of years a company has to support a product that they have on the market. As I recall Apple has lost a few court cases where they have not fully supported computers with newer versions of the OS for long enough. A bigger problem with not supporting PPC systems with 10.5 comes in the economics of it. Apple will want to sell updates to thier current install base when 10.5 comes out, if they dont support PPC systems with it then they can't sell the system software to the largets part of their install base.
also developers will want as many people to get their products as possible - extending the life of Fat Binaries