I used to program educational shareware, about 5 years ago, and I'm wondering if it might be time to hop back into the Macintosh educational shareware market, and I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on that.
I think that, with many schools doing Mac OS X migration, there's a whole market of educational users looking for elementary level OS X applications that are NATIVE OS X and don't require Classic. Speaking for my own county I know this is true. There are titles available for OS X at the elementary level, but nowhere NEAR as many as were available in the OS 7 and OS 8 days. It's certainly easy to get out on the Internet. But there's three huge problems with shareware on the net today: 1. Piracy, and piracy of registration codes. (I found my old program Mr. Fixitup's registration code on 12 different websites, and the program hasn't been sold in 5 years!) 2. Competition from free online Flash games and activities. 3. Consumer apathy about paying for shareware. Seriously, there's still plenty of people who are wondering where Napster went because they don't understand why it was ILLEGAL. But there's a serious excitement over OS X in schools, and elementary schools are just now in the process of thinking about making the move. The number of elementary schools that run OS X is increasing and it will keep going up for probably the next 5 years as schools slowly switch over. So I'm wondering if anyone might be willing to share their thoughts about the OS X educational software market? -- :) Richard MacLemale Network Administrator J. W. Mitchell High School _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
