04-06-2006, 03:29 AM
You guys are missing the point.
The risk is not that folks won't buy Macs or like OS X.
The risk is that a software house that currently develops both will stop development of the OS X version of their software because they don't need to spend all the development costs to get a version that will run on Mac OS X, and we'll be forced to buy Windows to run on our Macs if we want their titles. And these are big titles.
It's not what the consumer will do. It is the software developers abandoning dual platform development.
And if you think that OS X is just so danged elegant that this won't happen, you don't understnad the economics of the software house. We're back to Betamax.
The risk is not that folks won't buy Macs or like OS X.
The risk is that a software house that currently develops both will stop development of the OS X version of their software because they don't need to spend all the development costs to get a version that will run on Mac OS X, and we'll be forced to buy Windows to run on our Macs if we want their titles. And these are big titles.
It's not what the consumer will do. It is the software developers abandoning dual platform development.
And if you think that OS X is just so danged elegant that this won't happen, you don't understnad the economics of the software house. We're back to Betamax.