[OT] Market Share

[Viktoras Didziulis]

although I am "not a Mac person" yet, and buying Mac for software tests
(Windows/Linux/Mac) is in my future plans only, I think the first successful
step that increased market share of Apple was giving up Mac Classic and
building the new OSX on nix ! This action increased availability of software
tools originally created for other nix'es (Unix, Linux) that started to be
easily portable to Mac, because now Mac belongs to the same family too. The
second successful step is giving up hardware limitations with Mac Intel.
This should have a major effect in a few years. The third successful step
would be reduction of price so I could afford buying the Mac by the end of
this year :-). 
 
I think Multiplatform development tools emerging on Mac side are the strong
side of the Mac, not the weak. Developers will always want to have several
choices, and if they now see that something they created on Mac will work on
Linux or Windows, they feel happy, safe and enjoy the world of Apple. On the
other hand the same truth applies to Windows. So nor Mac neither Windows are
going to die, unless they start implementing policies restricting
multiplatform development in any way and thus isolating themselves... 
 
By the way, Windows XP is really stable thing now. It never crashed on my
PCs since I have installed it (legaly) for the first time several years ago.
Still the major concern about Windows is security - antivirus, firewall and
malware removal tools (like spybot) should be always on. Mac OSX is much
safer just because it inherits all the secure environment from nix... 
 
All the best! 
Viktoras 
 
 
 
-------Original Message------- 
 
From: Richard Gaskin 
Date: 07/09/06 22:43:14 
To: How to use Revolution 
Subject: Re: [OT] Market Share 
 
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..." 
 
-- 
Richard Gaskin 
Managing Editor, revJournal 
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