Re: Is it just me, or does Apple seem to let goldenopportunitiesslip by?

[Shay Telfer]

Then I asked Gary about this he said that "only 5% of people use 
macs so they weren't bothering to pre test on macs only patch and 
fix it if and when they got complaints"...


This is pretty typical of web developers. I generally believe it's 
cheaper to get it right the first time wrt compatibility than to have 
to go back and re-implement to the mistakes. As the quote goes 
"There's always time to do it over, but never time to do it right"


Have fun,
Shay
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Re: Is it just me, or does Apple seem to let goldenopportunitiesslip by?

[Mark Secker]

I am surprised that there are a number of web sites that don't work on a
Mac, which may be poor design, but Apple should have a guru around to the
site's developer to try and fix it. The old chestnut used to be that "You
can't get software for Macs'. The new one will be - You can't access web
sites - and that will really hurt sales. Apple do seem to not want to tell
too many people about their product.
Peter Bull
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trouble is it's a self iterative downward spiral less Macs means less 
development for mac less development means less adoption of Macs.


and yes there are Apple web design guru's who are only a phone call 
and a credit card number away just so amny corporate environments are 
"microsoft only" houses.


In the general, non gaming, home computing environment their is 
pretty much a practical answer to all desktop applications on Windows 
machines... the real problem is accessing and using corporate it 
services (ie through the web) were the developers are so bound and 
tied in to the zombie chanted "Microsoft IS the standard" mantra.



the guys that designed the University Credit Union  website back a 
few years ago are friends of mine.. the system ALWAYS  ALWAYS had 
problems with macs using the system particularly not informing Mac 
users that their password was about to expire and then not allowing 
them to change their password if they did know it was about to expire.


Then I asked Gary about this he said that "only 5% of people use macs 
so they weren't bothering to pre test on macs only patch and fix it 
if and when they got complaints"... trouble is at that time UWA was 
around 25 to 30% macs so they got A LOT of complaints.




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