[OT] Market Share

[Mark Smith]

That may be the developers view - what about the users?

I am not a professional developer, and as a user (I have 10.4 on a PB  
for personal stuff, 10.3 on a 7 year old 350Mhz G3 that runs as a  
print server and other things, and 10.2 on a dual G4 that runs my  
music stuff) I have not found anything that I use to be fraught in  
any way...perhaps the developers who make the software I use have  
torn their hair out, but I paid what they asked so it's really not my  
problem.

Nor have I had to upgrade any of my software or peripherals to  
accomodate OS releases, though I am about to upgrade the G4 to OS  
10.4 as some new (non-apple) software I'm getting requires it. Having  
said that, I've generaly avoided the bleeding edge, and I tend to  
only upgrade anything when there is a fairly compelling reason to,  
like some new feature that I might actually use :)

I think Apple have always focused on the user experience, perhaps at  
the expense of the developer experience - and I hope they continue  
to. (This is not to suggest that MS don't, I'm sure they do, but I've  
never used windows seriously, so I really can't say anything useful  
about it).

Best,

Mark


On 10 Jul 2006, at 00:23, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Forget the cost, every OSX release has been fraught with bugs and
> inconsistencies which send developers scurrying to provide updates.
> I've said it before, but we spend at least 4X the resources keeping
> our Mac products updated as we do Windows.