Scott Raney wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Richard MacLemale wrote:
> > A PLEA FOR OS X...
> We've already publicly promised that we will be supporting Mac OS X
> and have already started development on this version of MetaCard.
There are two ways you could go, and I am not shure which one you will!
1. Make the MacOS version carbon compliant so it can run on MacOS 8 and X.
2. Port the Unix engine to MacOS X.
The main problem will be Aqua... MetaCard does not use the OS to draw
controlls, so the look (and feel?) of any new GUI will be a lot of work
to do. And with themes coming, developers using MetaCard will have to
find good reasons they do not support them, if MetaCard sticks to this
approach. I forgot to mention this in the survey, but this is really my
pet peeve.
> But keep in mind the relatively slow rate of conversion to
> Windows NT and Windows 2000 from 95/98. I wouldn't expect the
> transition to Mac OS X to be any faster, especially given that it's a
> very complex product and that conversion to it will likely be at least
> as painful and probably more so (application support is going to be
> spotty the first few months, something that's not a big problem going
> from NT to 2000, for example).
I disagree. Mac users are more enthusiastic and much more courageous
because they have not lost their belief that they are buying great
products that solve more problems than are generated by using it. They
may be right, they may be wrong, but do you remember when USB support
became an issue?!? Apple took the bold step to replace their proprietary
ADB entirely wich USB, and all those PC owners started to think: "Why
not actually *use* that USB port that is built onto my mainboard for 3
years?"... Some even had to drill holes into their casing, because the
producer had ignored the USB!!! Imagine that!
The same thing is happening with FireWire, but slower because there is a
higher cost involved... I think Apple will build only FireWire hard
disks into their G5 generation computers and within a month or so prices
for FireWire hard disks will drop to 5 to 10 percent above IDE disks.
Things are completely different with Windows 2000: Nobody sees any real
benefit from switching soon, better wait for those bugs to be found by
somebody else. They don't expect them to be fixed, but as soon they are
found, they will be documented in one of those 5000 page "Windows 2000
bibles" so "they can handle it"! Yuk!
Not everybody will switch this year, but Apple has announced to ship new
machines with MacOS X in Q1 2001... so my guess is that 75% of G3 and G4
users will have moved over by the end of 2001.
Regards
Rüdiger
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