Re: why developers should port their games to the Mac
@SLJ,
While I agree with you on the points you emphasised above, you might take a step back and look at how you're coming across yourself. I know we don't know each other very well, and in all reality you probably have no reason to listen to me, but you need not get so defensive either and resort to suggesting someone's character is all around bad just because you find them entirely disagreeable. It makes you look just as bad, particularly if you want to prove that you really do have a point to prove. Trust me on this one if you can bring yourself to do so; you actually do have a talking point.
@Ethin,
I'm afraid I'm going to have to agree with SLJ and post 87 on this one. To say that using OSX has no advantage at all over windows is over stretching it. Where mainstream and audiogaming are concerned I'll give you that you are more or less practically right and, even the mac party has to agree, that gaming is best suited to windows users as the market stands entirely. Perhaps on other fronts such as audio editing, producing and sound designing, video and photo editing, accounting, and record keeping and maybe even developing we can also get them to agree that realistically there aren't really greater perks, that the playing field actually favors windows versus mac, and that if it weren't they wouldn't bother booting into windows at all and just leave windows users be.
But there really is such a thing as Apple's ecosystem of products, something Microsoft with its billions of dollars cannot touch without Apple's permission, and even when it does only begins to scratch the surface. I mentioned earlier that iTunes works similarly on windows and Macs; similarly, but not the same. That is of the greatest importance if you've bought into Apple and its myriad of resources, hardware and software, physical and digital. On windows, iTunes wraps everything up into what Microsoft believes is a convenient little package. On Mac OS, nothing is centralized, which means you can get both what you want and what you need based on your own customization, spread out across the system Apple itself has manufactured and curated based on its customers and noone else. MS is still trying to appeal to the greater general public; Apple is interested in keeping its users and getting its users to promote its platforms.
And this is where hard hitting products such as iOS and iPhones come into play, because Apple knows that if you buy one device you're likely to buy more and more of them. Unlike MS which gives you the flexibility to choose from a massive amount of services with which to sync up all of your devices if you have a ton, Apple tells you to set them up through initial processes then to forget them, after which, everything will just work. Take a pic with your iPhone and it's available on your MAC, your iPad, your TV, your watch, etc. Edit a document on your mac, and the same holds true for all the other Apple devices you have. Receive a call or a text message but you don't have your phone within arm's reach? No problem, answer it on your mac if you're at your desk or your watch if its on your wrist.
And because Apple still has full control over the design of all of these devices, pushing updates to them is much, much easier without the likelyhood that something is going to break along the way, unlike MS where an update might nullify a driver from a third party vender, or cause some other piece of software not to work the same. If something does go horribly, horribly wrong for whatever reason, there's only one place you have to remember to take it to, the Apple store. If your windows PC breaks and you don't possess the knowhow on fixing it, you google if you're brave or, call a family member and hope that he or she can help because you don't want to shell out money, or you call a tech support line number and hope that works, and if it doesn't you take it to the store you purchased it from and hope that works, and this isn't taking into consideration that there are things like hoping you haven't violated the terms of any warranty you may or may not have purchased for the device in question, the differing expertise of the people who will be handling your device, etc. The average windows user can spend hundreds of dollars on his or her PC and end up with a crackerbox full of crumbs and bloatware to boot. You don't spend upwards of 500 dollars with a mac to not know what you're getting.
So yes, there really are advantages, especially for hardwired, every day mac users who have always known the system and loved the system for all of the reasons I've outlined above and more. To say otherwise is just as bad as a mac user suggesting to you that you're an idiot for spending so much time learning the ins and outs of your windows system which to them is twice as unreliable and requires more of your effort and patience to get right, when there's just works, period, along with the money you'll be spending to upgrade the hardware they don't need to switch out for years to come.
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