...and therein lies another horrible truth, the MBP hardware is a winner, OS/X is not. I myself am using a MBP and it is awesome, but guess what, I'm not using OS/X (although I return for doses of sanity). My anecdotal study of the three Starbucks in walking distance from my house shows 75% of people with MBP's. Closer inspection reveals 90% running Windows. Bottom line is that (normal) people don't really care what software they are running as long as it is good enough, and Windows has made this a reality by ubiquity, not excellence. It is shameful that you need so much processing power just for the operating system, it is lazy coding, but who really cares? Ask your Mum/Mom whether she is bothered whether she uses flash or silverlight.
And the previous poster was right, Microsoft do live in their own bubble and their intellectual protectionism is shocking, especially to a European mindset (why don't they just participate rather than trying to own absolutely everything?). However, when your bubble includes 85% of all computers ever built, it is understandable that life outside the bubble may seem somewhat irrelevant, especially if your goals are commercial rather than principled, which Microsoft's undoubtedly are. However, they do have a serious credibility issue in the software development community as this thread (and our avid support of Flash) is a minor testimony to. When I'm placing a trust bet I don't choose Microsoft. As a result I don't think Microsoft are going to retain their position of dominance forever as more and more becomes available through open source initiatives. But the Microsoft monster is here for now and it is smarter as a commercial software developer to use the fact to your advantage than to stubbornly attempt to ignore the reality. And speaking of the tao of programming, I think the only haiku worth remembering in commercial software is that best never wins, and neither does first. As a species we are optimised for compromise, evolution insists on it. --- In [email protected], Weyert de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bjorn Schultheiss wrote: > > > > > > I am of the same opinion. > > > > At the recent WebDU conference I spotted 1 presenter with a PC notebook, > > all the rest were macbooks. > > Yeah, I was using Windows on my MBP ;-) > > > I am quite a fan of a lot of non-windows based software, and i enjoy > > building flash-based applications that can be deployed on either OS. > > Indeed! Developing GUI components for Windows is fun too, though. > Creating Grid components and such! > > Yours, > Weyert de Boer >
