Yes, mostly agree with this. The link quotes earlier says: "I was working at Apple when this process happened, and I can tell you that it was searing. Apple had invested countless hours and dollars marketing those products as prominent reasons to buy Macs, and then we saw that investment turned against us when the apps were made available on Windows."
You see the mentality - and I say this as a former Mac user, sometimes accused of being a Mac Fanatic in the day. The problem is they are under this fatal illusion that what you do is invent a must have app, keep it to your platform, and then force people who do not want your platform on its merits, to buy it so as to get your must have apps. What you then find is this tension between app and platform. Filemaker, for instance, says that we could sell a ton of this if we can do a Windows version. The hardware people probably say today, we could sell a ton more hardware if only we could put Windows on it. The OS people say that they could sell a whole bunch more if only they could allow it to run on third party hardware. Someplace in Cupertino there is Politbureau sayinging no, life is as it was in 1985.... Alas, it is not. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/HyperCard-for-the-iPad-tp2224439p2225138.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution