But you can count the number of large companies developing for the platform on one hand ... The transition to OSX effectively killed many key players (Norton, Symantec, Alladin, Metrowerks)
There's no inherent value in large companies making Mac software. The products are more expensive and their people are harder to reach. I only care about the big companies if they have something of value to offer. What of Symantec and Aladdin's stuff truly makes sense on Mac OS X?
As for Metrowerks, that's a separate issue. Yes, Apple had Project Builder from the start, but I've always heard mumblings that Motorola was miffed that it had to stop making StarMax machines.
Big names just don't have the pull that they used to. Instead of thinking of it in terms of brand names, my question is which apps do you want?
additional pressure on many 3rd parties who may decide it's not worth porting older apps
That's pretty vague. Like who? Adobe certainly needs the revenue, and Quark and Microsoft have already signed up. What other big companies are there?
by Scott Stevenson — Jan 17
There's no inherent value in large companies making Mac software. The products are more expensive and their people are harder to reach. I only care about the big companies if they have something of value to offer. What of Symantec and Aladdin's stuff truly makes sense on Mac OS X?
As for Metrowerks, that's a separate issue. Yes, Apple had Project Builder from the start, but I've always heard mumblings that Motorola was miffed that it had to stop making StarMax machines.
Big names just don't have the pull that they used to. Instead of thinking of it in terms of brand names, my question is which apps do you want?
additional pressure on many 3rd parties who may decide it's not worth porting older apps
That's pretty vague. Like who? Adobe certainly needs the revenue, and Quark and Microsoft have already signed up. What other big companies are there?