[OT] Market Share

[Richard Gaskin]

Bill Marriott wrote:

> Thank Intel + BootCamp.

End users can thank Intel and BootCamp, but for Mac developers nothing 
could be more of a threat.

Since the beginning of Macdom, writing for the Mac was a choice you had 
to make, often a fairly expensive choice.  But a lot of developers bit 
the bullet and did it anyway, and they developed loyal fans, and all was 
good, and the fan mail helped make up for the unusually high overhead of 
committing to the Mac marketplace.

Then along came BootCamp, and eventually a variant which further blurs 
the lines between Mac and Windows apps. When that version arrives, there 
will be little incentive to support Mac developers -- and that includes 
"cross platform" developers like most of us here, since users can run 
VB-native apps right inside of an OS X window.

  "Welcome to Macintosh.  Thank you for your two decades of sacrifice.
   Now please excuse us as we make it easy for non-Mac developers to
   walk in and destroy your business without lifting a finger..."

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