Johannes Gebauer wrote:
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Personally I don't think Finale has much of a future if they decide to
go single-platform.
Johannes
Without intending to get into any sort of platform-wars or CPU-wars, I
wonder if that's true.
Knowing that Macs represent a very small share of the entire computer
industry, I would be very curious to know what size share Macs have in
the Finale marketplace.
I know that once Macs were the computers of choice for music, but I also
know that's not as cut-and-dried as it once was.
I know that as long as Sibelius remains two-platform, it will only grow
in market share should MakeMusic decide to go single-platform, but I
wonder how much of its current market-share MakeMusic would actually
lose should it decide to go single-platform.
Or worse, it might decide to keep 2006 as the working version for the
Mac platform, since most Mac users won't automatically be buying new
computers in January, when the intel chips are used, while bringing out
newer versions for Windows. Band-in-a-Box did such a thing (leaving the
Mac BIAB several versions behind and at a slower upgrade rate) and still
continues to thrive.
Does anybody know the percentage of Mac-to-Windows users of Finale?
Okay, I realize that MakeMusic knows that, but I don't think they would
release that information publicly. Does anybody on this list know (and
care to share) what the ratio is?
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David H. Bailey
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