At 02:29 PM 11/03/2013, you wrote:
On 11/03/2013, at 12:25 , Mike Borgelt
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
wrote:
Why screw around wasting your time with Apple OS?
'Cos it's enabled be to bill well over $16,000 per year more for the
last 5 years than if I still used windows. Cheap is not always the
most cost effective.
I presume that the "be" in the above sentence should read "me" . Do
you mean you are more productive or that the customers pay more for
that fact that you do stuff on a mac?
We're talking about running gliding software, not other uses for macs
or there relatives. What is the market penetration of macs? 10 % or
so? If you are going to write gliding software which is a relatively
small market anyway you really don't want to do and support a mac
version as well. Oz Runways chose the ipad platform for their GA
planning and flight software and I can see why. There was a good
number of ipads in use and by choosing to run their software on that
they could support only one platform that was tightly specified.
Smart move and minimises their support issues.
Most gliding software predates the ipad and was originally written
for Windows machines. Given the low cost of netbooks why not simply
spend A$200 or so and buy one just for gliding stuff and going away
from home? If you are going to run gliding software on some Windows
emulator why the hell bother with the mac in the first place?
I did say I thought Apple products were nicely built and they
certainly look nice but my ASUS all-in-one PC running Win 7 looks
nice too and far cheaper. I want a communications/general purpose PC
not a fashion or interior decoration accessory.
Nice to see the bait taken so easily. Stirring Apple fanbois is like
shooting fish in a barrel. If you guys were really convinced you
wouldn't be so sensitive. Reminds me of the global warmenists or the
co2mmunists. If the evidence was so compelling they too wouldn't be
so defensive.
LOL.
Mike
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