Perhaps. For me three reasons:- $$ I really don't want to pay for an OS license that I really don't want to use
- RAM my little MBA only has 8GB and most days I see it swapping already - disk space
In any case I'm in the camp saying don't start work on MLO Mac. Cheers Mark
nshram <mailto:nsh...@gmail.com> 15 December, 2012 11:00 AM why this fuss? run mlo on xp under virtualbox.. far better than wine.. virtualbox available for linux and mac too.. m...@grantsmiths.org <mailto:m...@grantsmiths.org> 10 December, 2012 4:22 PM The whole Mac-versus-PC thing has provided us all with a lot of entertainment over the last three decades, but it's getting tired, and abit tiresome. Neither Apple nor Microsoft are even making much of a pretenseanymore that there's anything strategic about their desk-scale platforms.Not that people will be discarding their laptops. But more people are prettysatisfied with what they have and it's getting harder to sell new ones,especially to people whose need for new functionality is satisfied by a newtablet or superphone. The problem is that MLO's businesses model seems to me to be based on desktop sales, with mobile sales serving primarily as a way to draw newcustomers to the desktop. Maybe Andrey can feed his wife and child from his mobile revenues but the vacation in Thailand had to come from desktop sales.I don't see this sustaining over the next few years. I would like to see a higher-end higher-priced mobile product with the ability to create the kinds of complex recurrence that require windows today, plus the ability to save views, set flags, print, and a few other things. Enough functionality that I would not need the desktop version unless I actually wanted to work on the desktop. I would probably still want the ability to check or complete a task from a desktop, or maybe create a very simple task. This should probably beprovided by a web interface to the cloud file. I would probably pay a small monthly amount for this, and it should be accessible from Macs, PCs, Linux,and stuff that hasn't been invented yet. SRhyse <mailto:srh...@gmail.com> 10 December, 2012 3:28 PMTotal number of OS installs or purchases, even device installs and purchases, isn't the best metric to measure market viability with in regards to MLO. As stated I believe elsewhere, many Windows installs are on closed networks that end users aren't in a position to have their own personal software on. Then there are the many users that simply don't do anything with their computers that stock apps can't do, which don't really buy any software outside of what came with the computer on any OS. From there, among the users that are in a position to buy and install software, you have to segment further into the ones that are willing to pay for software, and further still into the ones in the market for task management software of any kind, let alone software that can scale to the level of complexity MLO allows......but I mainly mention all that to point that, as someone that does alot of marketing and design work with app developers, it's a really complex landscape that you can't be that broad about in any meaningful way when making decisions on pursuing new platforms. There is a very strong market for productivity software on the Mac and iOS platforms, as evidenced by the sales and data that does exist. And it is one that's open to more independent solutions that aren't all knocked out by the Microsoft Office Suite, as Outlook and MS Project do on various levels when compared to MLO.So atleast to help frame the discussion a little better - there is a viable market for MLO on the Mac platform. But it is one that takes a significant investment of time and money, as does making a product on any platform.If Andrey really wants to run with Apple, I'd put more effort into the iOS apps at this point. That's where they're pushing for a long term future anyway, as evidenced by their spending and management allocation. If you wanted another platform, I'd push for a web end first, so you can cover many bases at once as a fall back. And I write all this as someone that would love a Mac MLO app for if or when I got a new computer. The iPad app has presently become my primary app in the MLO ecosystem, however.Nick Clark <mailto:nick.clar...@googlemail.com> 5 December, 2012 5:48 PMI disagree that not developing a Mac version is a terrible mistake. Mac has less than 10% of the user base of Windows so doesn't even get near the 80:20 rule for focusing development effort. It wouldn't be worthwhile. Linux is in a similar position.Nick kitus <mailto:marc.garcia.ma...@gmail.com> 5 December, 2012 1:00 PM Mark,I partially disagree with you. While I think that porting MLO to Linux could be quite a nightmare for there are just too many distros out there, I really think that porting MLO to Mac OSx would be quite a smart move businesswise. I have not make a market survey, but if I said that probably only Omnifocus can be compared to MLO. Neither of both is cross platform Mac Windows, and the Omnigroup specifically said they wouldn't develop a windows version of its product... has MLO formally stated anything? not that I know.Frankly, I think that not developing a Mac version of MLO is a terrible mistake.Regards, On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 10:23:39 PM UTC+1, Mark Levison wrote:
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