Rev killing the Mac platform?

[Barry Levine]

If I follow what you are saying, I need to buy an Express license so I 
can continue my final development/tweaking under Windows, then transfer 
the project back to my Mac for the final distribution build so I won't 
get the annoying splash screen (that I would otherwise get if I built 
the project on the PC). It seems like a reasonable solution and I am 
slapping myself that I didn't see it (and obviously missed Geoff's 
posting regarding this). If that is all that is different (splash vs no 
splash), then I can build the distribution on both platforms (for PC) 
and double-check that there are no other differences that building on 
"the other platform" introduced.

As far as "abandoning" the Mac goes, I used to work for Apple and was 
their K-12 AE for my local territory. I bleed in six colors. However, 
the fact that I would need to buy an additional license when I am truly 
only running it on one computer at a time is bothersome. I'll just have 
to pass the costs on to my customers (which is reasonable).

Though I am "themacguy", I can see the benefits of the PC. In fact, I 
just built a "small-form-factor" unit which sits on the shelf and uses 
my Mac keyboard and trackball (via KVM).

Perhaps I'll complain less when the "special pricing" for renewals is 
posted.

Regards,
Barry


On Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003, at 10:02 America/Denver, 
use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:26:08 -0600
> Subject: Re: Rev killing the Mac platform?
> From: Alex Rice <alrice at ARCplanning.com>
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:02  AM, Barry Levine wrote:
>>
>> With Macs at under 4% of the market, guess what I'll have to choose?
>> Apple would not be pleased.
>
> So how is Rev "Rev killing the Mac platform"? This doesn't make sense
> and it's not fair. In my eyes RR seems to be a huge advocate of Mac OS.
> Just look at their website, their press releases, jaguar this, jaguar
> that.
>
> As Geoff mentioned, you can get an additional license for Express @
> $75, to do your debugging on Windows.
>
> Personally I would rather pay an extra $75 than to move over to Windows
> for my main development platform. If you are that easily swayed to
> abandon Mac OS then maybe there are other reasons & you would do it
> anyways?