“There are fewer Macintosh than Windows applications, but with four or five award-winning word processors, who needs sixty? Equating Macs to Lexus and PCs to Ford, a friend noted the Lexus might be limited to camel and black floor mats only available from the dealer, but who in their right mind would buy the hot pink Escort floor mats at Wal-Mart? I’ve often quipped Mac software going PC become best sellers while PC software moving to the Mac become forgotten. There is truth in that,” Marc L. Rubinstein writes for The Gray News.
“PhotoShop, once exclusively Mac, flourished on PCs while titles like Corel Photo waned. AutoCAD, had a Mac version for about six months: almost no one bought it. Mac apps were easier to use, more like real drafting – and opened and saved AutoCAD files,” Rubinstein writes. “The Summer of 1992 rollout of Excel for Windows was anti-climactic; the Mac version had been out for years. PowerPoint started as a Mac HyperCard stack. Years later Microsoft bought it.”
Rubinstein writes, “I point these facts out to everyone commenting about the lack of Mac software. I ask why they abandoned VersaCalc or Lotus 1-2-3 for Excel, or gave up Word Perfect, WordStar or Lotus Notes for Word – why they abandoned perfectly good PC software to use Mac products on their PCs? That usually stumps them.”
Full article here.
Counltess games.
Many apps (ACDSee, CAD software, plugins, etc)
Stories that claim to dismiss the lack of certain key apps as merely a myth are pure BS.
There are alternative software, but when a person works with a specific one – is comfortable using it – then there are no real alternatives but the exact same program.
“It’s a myth, now will you buy?” will not sell more Macs.
Counltess games.
Many apps (ACDSee, CAD software, plugins, etc)
Stories that claim to dismiss the lack of certain key apps as merely a myth are pure BS.
There are alternative software, but when a person works with a specific one – is comfortable using it – then there are no real alternatives but the exact same program.
“It’s a myth, now will you buy?” will not sell more Macs.
Counltess games.
Many apps (ACDSee, CAD software, plugins, etc)
Stories that claim to dismiss the lack of certain key apps as merely a myth are pure BS.
There are alternative software, but when a person works with a specific one – is comfortable using it – then there are no real alternatives but the exact same program.
“It’s a myth, now will you buy?” will not sell more Macs.
Lets not forget about health care. Tons of small, single function apps that run only on windows in every hospital and every HMO.
I had an MRI recently and they gave my doctor a CDR with my scans on it and a windows only application to read them. The images would not open in any app for the mac.
He uses virtual PC with great success at the hospital, BTW.
>Games? Yes, there are many, many more games for Windows than Macintosh. However, how *MANY* games do you need?
Is that really your argument?
This roughly translates into: “You don’t need any more games, so now will you buy a Mac?”
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I don’t play many games myself, but I did enjoy several that never made it to Mac. RollerCoaster Tycoon is one of them… and that’s just naming *ONE* and not *MANY*.
Again, if a person uses a specific software title and is comfortable using it (maybe even productive), then that plays a huge roll in the purchasing decision. In my case, I would love the Mac to run a couple – RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, ACDSee, and WinMX to name a few.
So, if the lack of specific titles plays a roll in the purchasing decision, is it really a myth?!?!
>Games? Yes, there are many, many more games for Windows than Macintosh. However, how *MANY* games do you need?
Is that really your argument?
This roughly translates into: “You don’t need any more games, so now will you buy a Mac?”
—
I don’t play many games myself, but I did enjoy several that never made it to Mac. RollerCoaster Tycoon is one of them… and that’s just naming *ONE* and not *MANY*.
Again, if a person uses a specific software title and is comfortable using it (maybe even productive), then that plays a huge roll in the purchasing decision. In my case, I would love the Mac to run a couple – RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, ACDSee, and WinMX to name a few.
So, if the lack of specific titles plays a roll in the purchasing decision, is it really a myth?!?!
>Games? Yes, there are many, many more games for Windows than Macintosh. However, how *MANY* games do you need?
Is that really your argument?
This roughly translates into: “You don’t need any more games, so now will you buy a Mac?”
—
I don’t play many games myself, but I did enjoy several that never made it to Mac. RollerCoaster Tycoon is one of them… and that’s just naming *ONE* and not *MANY*.
Again, if a person uses a specific software title and is comfortable using it (maybe even productive), then that plays a huge roll in the purchasing decision. In my case, I would love the Mac to run a couple – RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, ACDSee, and WinMX to name a few.
So, if the lack of specific titles plays a roll in the purchasing decision, is it really a myth?!?!
….and the credibility of this article is lost when the writer does not even know what the heck he is talking about? Lotus Notes for Word? Dude, does he even KNOW what Lotus Notes is? I am a Lotus Notes Admin/Developer and it has NOTHING to do with MS Word, nor Lotus Word Pro (which is what he should have written).
MacDan, the quote reads “gave up (Word Perfect, WordStar or Lotus Notes) for Word”, not “gave up (Word Perfect), (WordStar) or (Lotus Notes for Word)” ;-p
Add professional tax prep software to the list. However, with the impending intel macs, porting current software may be easy enough for companies to jump in. God, I hope so.
Hey, JoeKnows – Try MacGPS Pro
How about a desktop database that can print reports?
(And don’t say ‘FileMaker’. FM can’t print, end of story.)