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Originally posted by nuckinfutz
Low cost seqencer- try http://www.intuem.com/

Band in a Box IS available for Mac. Has been for years.

Visio- Business App. Not suprised there's no support

Access- bundled with Office. Horrible DB but people use it because it's from microsoft.

Genealogy- Reunion from www.leisterpro.com rules the roost.

Encarta & Worldbook- Worldbook has a verison specific to Jaguar even. I'll be buying it soon http://store.worldbook.com/wb/product.asp?sku=10545

Act and Goldmine- Business apps. See Visio comments.

Okay...I'll abandon my argument since people seem to be mostly focused on pointing me to specific Mac apps in an effort to disprove my contention that the software offerings are limited.

BIB - yeah, available, but with a warning to run it under OS 9 to avoid timing problems....

Reunion - not a real competitor to Family Tree, IMHO, since not a single add-on database is available.

World Book - wasn't aware they were offering an OX version. (I do have the OS X version of Britannica, since it came bundled with the Windows version)

Again, I'm not saying there are no Mac apps - I'm saying that in many categories the choices are extremely limited. For many business users like me, applications like Visio, Access, Act, etc., regardless of their perceived technical merit, are essential. I'm not faulting Apple; I realize they can't force developers to write for the platform. Still, that'll be small consolation if the user base gradually erodes.

Time will tell, but right now it looks to me like I'll be continuing to use PC's for a long time, regardless of my enthusiasm for the Mac and OS X. Gotta do what I gotta do.
 
I would introduce an iPod wich is able to:

- Call. Motorola produces very tiny phone. Make a deal with them

- Has a Newtonlike touchpad. Color of course. It has a nice OSXlike interface.

- Can play video. Through cable to TV

- Can play games like gameboy.


Anybody?
 
Cocoa for Windows and Linux...

Originally posted by dkeninitz
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I'm not faulting Apple; I realize they can't force developers to write for the platform. Still, that'll be small consolation if the user base gradually erodes.
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Sorry if this has been done to death before (I'm new here) - I'd like to see Apple help cross platform development in every way possible. So if I owned Apple that's what I'd do.

- I'm told Cocoa is an amazing development language.
- Openstep (now Cocoa) used to compile to Windows 95, Windows NT, Solaris, HP/UX.
- Linux is now becoming popular...

Entice any Windows developer interested in Mac, entice any Windows developer interested in Linux, to program in Cocoa and get all 3.
 
re Cocoa for Windows and Linux...

Did I miss a line in the middle there? Ooops sorry

Cocoa could be re-enabled (developed?) so that it works on Windows XP and Linux. Then a developer could program on the Mac, and compile to Windows XP & Linux, in addition to Mac OS X.
 
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