I agree with you in that respect, Kevin. I'm not ready to buy a Mac again, but I'd still love to play around with development on OSX. They have great frameworks and development tools, in my opinion.
Also, I support enough Macs that it would be helpful when I have to take calls about Mail not working or lost Keychain passwords, etc. They should really have a developer-only licensed VMWare image of OSX. For some small fee, say $129, the cost of a typical Mac OS upgrade. Good Developers seem to be moving to (or supporting in addition to Windows) OS X in droves. The amount of quality software for OS X has seemingly doubled overnight. I just don't know who's buying it though. I've yet to see a commercial customer around here asking for OSX point of sale software, although some great packages exist. J On 7/18/07, Kevin Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The objection that I've been hearing is just this; if I am a network > administrator, and I have a mixture of Mac, Windows, and Linux, and I > get a tech support call of a problem running software on a Mac, I > couldn't begin to troubleshoot it in some sort of VM. I'd have to have > a Mac available to me, in some manner. > > Yes, this company could go out an buy a Mac which achieves Apple's goal > of selling hardware, but it also creates a barrier of entry for this > company. > > As a small (tiny) software development company, it delays me from > releasing Mac based versions of my software until I perceive a real need > for it in the market, as opposed to speculating that there is a need in > the market. > > Apple can do what they want with their hardware and software and > licenses. I don't hate them for it. Apple just may not be for me and > my business, yet. > > -Kevin > CULLY Technologies, LLC > > Sponsor of FoxForward 2007 > foxforward.net > > > Ed Leafe wrote: > > Apple is a hardware company. Period. The only reason OS X exists is > > to encourage people to buy Apple hardware. Now think about your > > question again. > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
