John, I did not realized that reselling content that somebody else produced required great deal of R&D. Nor did I realized that 25 % profit on revenue is necessary to keep Apple Inc afloat. I do realize however, that esentially no money paid by Australians for products on iTunes find it's way into a local economy.
BTW, why do we have to return to gliding only after you had your say? cheers Paul On Monday, 11 March 2013, Mike Borgelt wrote: > At 02:29 PM 11/03/2013, you wrote: > > On 11/03/2013, at 12:25 , Mike Borgelt < [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 > -- Cheers Paul
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