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Re: LEGO Brick Masters Launches!
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lugnet.lego
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Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:43:48 GMT
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Next, why can’t you hire some programmers that are more flexible? This
Windows-only nonsense is silly. This is not the best, so this is not good
enough.
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This question gets asked a lot, but the answer is easy. Macs have 1% (pick your
own number, whatever it is, it’s under 10%) of the market. Suppose it “only”
takes 25% more budget to clone a Mac version of the PC product (it may not be
that cheap, because typically Mac programmer resources come in multiples of
whole bodies because there are not a lot of switch hitters out there). Nobody
wants to make only 1% more for spending 25% more - that’s a really poor return
on investment compared to spending that same 25% on another new PC product that
also sells to the 99% part of the market. About the only mitigating factor is
that you can have the luxury of only porting hits to the Mac market, but that
only casts in concrete that the Mac versions would come later than the PC
versions.
-Ted
whose first 7 personal computers were Macs but finally baled because Apple
wanted $1200 to repair a 2 year old motherboard while PC users could by
newer/faster/more powerful motherboards for $200
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) i dunno... can you really say that the mac market is less than 10%? that might have been true a few years ago, but apple is steadily gaining marketshare; one would only have to look at the number of apple retail stores opening up at a mall (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
| | | Re: LEGO Brick Masters Launches!
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| (...) I believe Apple sells about 2-5% of all personal computers in the world. However, people tend to keep Apple computers longer than people will keep the average x86 box, so the percentage of actual Mac users is higher than their marketshare. (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Brick Masters Launches!
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| (...) Hi! Just a few things: Lego Digital Designer is only available for Windows, so why does the picture show the kid using an Apple PowerBook? Next, why can't you hire some programmers that are more flexible? This Windows-only nonsense is silly. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.lego)
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