Rev's Mac-Centricity (Was: Plea to sell Dan's book widely)

[Wolfgang M.Bereuter]

On 07.08.2004, at 19:19, Dan Shafer wrote:

> At the end of the day, RR has to find niches where cross-platform 
> development is important or even critical. Those niches exist. But 
> they are not mainstream programmers on either platform (and certainly 
> not on *nix, whose developers seem to prefer Open Source tools). To 
> delude itself into thinking it will *ever* make significant inroads 
> into any traditional programming market would, I think, be the end of 
> RR. I think they should focus exclusively on  the folks I call 
> Inventive Users who are not full-time professional coders, who can 
> make a tool switch without a huge technical or social cost, and who 
> are at least interested in if not motivated by the possibility of 
> cross-platform development.
GREAT Analysis Dan! (like that from Troy)

> As it happens, I think that audience is at least 10 times as large as 
> the professional programming audience and vastly more receptive to new 
> development tools and technologies. But reaching that audience is 
> tricky.
I dont agree with the 10 times. Its hundred or thousand times bigger, 
if RR would start to focus more a this niche and better to the needs of 
"non professional prorgrammers". Im one of this, hence I know what im 
talking about.

Dan, why do they not listen to you at RR?

regards
Wolfgang M. Bereuter

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