Indeed this is worrying. I've found this as well on the day of iPad pre-order launch. Granted there's still the Mac OS X software... in the apple menu of every Mac. Yet, I don't know how many people came to Downloads page through it and how many came through the site. At any way, I am also feeling worried that this may hurt downloads and sales.
Jacob Gorban ([email protected]) Twitter: apparentsoft Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/apparentsoft http://www.apparentsoft.com On Mar 14, 2010, at 16:47 , Martin Hairer wrote: > Hi all, I just noticed that the "Downloads" section on Apple's website is > gone. I don't know when that happened, maybe it was replaced by the "iPad" > section or maybe I am just slow to react... In any case, the page > <http://www.apple.com/downloads/> still exists and shows up on a Google > search for "Apple", but I haven't found any link to it anymore on Apple's > website. > > I also noticed in my Google Analytics that Apple shows no longer up as a > referrer to my website, while it used to rank above both macupdate and > versiontracker. I am a bit worried that this is the beginning of a trend to > reduce Apple's commitment to the Mac platform in favour of the iPhone / iPad > / iPod platform. If this is true and we (i.e. the Mac developers in general) > are forced to rewrite our products almost from scratch for the iPhone OS just > a few years after being forced to rewrite them almost from scratch for Mac OS > X, then I start to seriously worry about Apple's ability to retain large > software developers.... Any thoughts? > > Martin > > HairerSoft > http://www.hairersoft.com/ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
