Yeah, but even amongst people who are technical, designers in particular, there are a lot of people who don't install multiple OS on a machine not because it's not available but because it's a pain in the ass. The fact that a person is proficient with Photoshop is no indication that they want to understand how a dual-boot system works, and I would actually hazard a guess that most Photoshop professionals actually would rather not know. But at the same time probably a large number of them would like to have access to both Photoshop on the Mac and certain other software that's currently only available on PC. Why else would there have been any market at all for VPC?
> Still only used and understood by techies. I can't imagine > anyone > that's not a techie spending the money or needing to OS's > On 4/5/06, S. Isaac Dealey wrote: >> >> The fact that dual-booting these machines will be easy. >> As it is right >> now, setting up a machine to dual-boot mac/windows is a >> chore and most >> folks if they're not already extreme tech fanatics aren't >> going to >> bother. The idea here is to allow someone with minimal >> computer >> experience to set up a dual-boot system pretty quickly >> and without >> pulling their hair out. The accessibility of a given >> technology is >> always a barrier to its entry into the market. >> >> Case in point: look at XML. Nowadays it's all over the >> place, but >> that's only been very recently. But XML isn't really a >> new thing per >> se, it's a subset of SGML which has been around since the >> 60's, and >> even then it was based on IBM's GML. So it took from some >> time in the >> 50's until somewhere around 2000 (50 yrs) before the >> technology even >> started being talked about as something people would see >> in widespread >> use. In the last 5 years (1/10th of the time it's been >> around), it's >> become a dominant force in the technological landscape. >> 50 years >> later, suddenly overnight, it's FUCKING EVERYWHERE. It's >> used to >> configure software (J2EE server config like CF Server, >> framework >> configs like Fusebox 4), it's used for syndication of >> content >> (RSS/Atom), and webservices for interoperability. You >> practically >> can't go to the toilet without being exposed to XML. And >> why, after 50 >> yrs? Because they got the idea to simplify SGML from Tim >> Berners-Lee >> who simplified it to create HTML. That's the only reason. >> >> The same principal applies here. If you can make it easy >> to do >> something that people want to do, then people will do it. >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:202903 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
