“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.”
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