Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 26.11.2005 Brian Williams wrote:
Also, to clarify, the sales rep told me that between a third and 40%
of all
installed versions of Finale were Mac. I grilled him pretty hard about
the
upcoming move to Intel and how that could really be a problem for the Mac
version, but he repeatedly reassured me that MM has no plans to drop
the Mac
version. He said it would be "suicide" to cut off over a third of its
installed base. We'll see.
If this was the true behind the scenes company philosophy, then I don't
understand in the least why it is not publically announced. I simply do
not believe it at this moment.
If future Macs are indeed dual boot windows machines, then MM is
definitely not cutting off a third of its installed base.
Johannes
Indeed, even if they don't bring out future Mac versions, those with
dual-boot machines will still be able to continue to use Finale. So
until all the smoke of the mac-intel rollout clears and we can finally
see the actual survivors and those who leave the Mac market, nothing
will be clear. Even if a company makes a public statement, there isn't
a single company I think I could trust with ANY sort of "Yes, we'll
continue to do this" statement. Too many people have lost their
pensions and their retirement healthcare benefits when companies have
said "Oh, yes, I forgot to tell you -- when I made those promises I had
my fingers crossed. Nyah-Nyah!"
One thing we haven't discussed is what sort of olive-branch micro$oft
will offer to those who purchase these new macintel machines --
currently a brand new, non-upgrade purchase of WinXP is quite expensive
unless it is bundled with a computer, so I wonder if Micro$oft might
make a terrific "firt hit's free" sort of offer of something on the
order of $30-$50 for MacIntel machines.
That might certainly make a dual-boot scenario more appealing to Mac
users who may wish to see what the Windows world has to offer.
I also wonder how quickly some hackers will be releasing versions of Mac
OSx which will actually run on non-Mac hardware.
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David H. Bailey
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