[OT] Market Share

[Jim Carwardine]

Rob, I think that your response to new computer buyers is the best advice
anyone could ever give.

I bought a Mac in 1985 and it was my first computer.  I bought it for 2
reasons, first, after 17 years in the computer industry, it was the first
personal computer I could rationalize because I couldn't see going home at
night and doing stuff I had been doing all day, working with command line
computers.  Second, for a couple of years I had been designing a way of
designing boats on a computer and was not satisfied with either the S100 bus
computers, the Apple II or the IBM PC.  Shortly after the Mac came out,
Andrew Mason came out with MacSurf - a programme that manipulated a surface
in 3D space on a Mac Plus.  I bought the Mac.

I have never owned a PC until 2 years ago when I needed to use some group
conferencing software to communicate with a group of geographically
dispersed clients.  I used VirtualPC up until MS purchased the company and
made it impossible to run on a Mac.  Then I used Timbuktu to use the PC from
my Mac.

Additionally, I have had to deal with the fact that most of my clients use a
PC.  My concession there was to adopt MS Office as my business software of
choice, bugs and all.  Rev is an extension of this circumstance where I need
to design software for my PC audience while still using my Mac for my own
and a few clients' work.

I can see where you would like the work arrangement you have and would go
with the platform that delivered it.  In my orientation, I would wait until
it became available on the Mac, if it ever did.  Looks like ink input is
available for OS 10.  I definitely prefer Palm script to the tiny keyboard
of the Blackberry.

Anyway... I'm definitely in the Mac niche with a nod the PC niche... Jim

on 7/9/06 12:28 PM, Rob Cozens wrote:

> Jim,
> 
> Your response to my post could have been written by me -- four years ago.
> 
> My first personal computer was an original IBM PC.   My second was a
> Mac SE/3O, and I never owned a computer running Windows until I
> bought a Motion M13OO Tablet PC.
> 
> When friends asked, "should I buy a Mac or a PC ?", my original
> response was, "find the software you need  and buy the computer that
> it runs  on."  After watching friends' experiences, I amended that to
> include "But most people seem to have an easier time learning how  to
> use a Mac."   I would grit my teeth and smile when friends who set
> out to buy a Mac came home with Circuit City's "computer de jour" --
> and asked me for help when the damn thing crashed.
> 
> I would smile smugly while watching my son and my brother-in-law,
> both certified Microsoft engineers, struggle to install a new device
> on my brother's PC.   And I said to myself "NO  WAY!"  when "Pirates
> of the Silicon Valley" (or a PBS documentary of the same genre)
> concluded that Apple lost the O/S war when Windows replaced MS/DOS.
> 
> But times have changed, and I would suggest that every "Mac bigot" --
> to use Dan Shafer's term affectionately -- who believes this is still
> the state of the Windows platforms should test her/his perception as
> it applies to today's technology.
> 
> After 15 years of Mac ownership, I wouldn't buy another Apple
> computer that doesn't support ink input and profile screen
> orientation.  My keyboard sits in a drawer, and virtually never sees
> the light of day.
> 
> The pen is mightier than the mouse!
> 
> Rob Cozens
> CCW, Serendipity Software Company
> 
> "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
> Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."
> 
> from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)
> 
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