Let's unwind and relax a little. These sure are confusing times in the Mac business. Talking with Dan Gillmor at the San Jose Mercury over the weekend, I asked the same question.
Some developers are more even viable than the platform vendor.
After all, Microsoft develops for the Mac, and no one talks about Microsoft going out of business. We make assumptions about Microsoft's behavior in the Mac market, but then don't look at the facts. They're leading in a lot of areas in the Mac net platform. Other developers are leaders, like Adobe, Quark, Netscape and Macromedia. They can provide what Apple doesn't have enough of, the ability to move developers.