> > In message <ap.244ee54eb9.a701a0a.m.con...@argonet.co.uk>
> >           <ATimbr...@aol.com> wrote:

> >> VirtualAcorn extends support to include Windows Vista

> > Is the OS X version ever going to be released? If so is there a
> > timescale?

> This is only my opinion, but it seems to me that RO developers seem to
> target Windows users because of the sheer size of the userbase. I
> think Ovation Pro has proved this is neither an advantage nor an easy
> market to move in to. I suspect that Mac users are a far more willing
> market, simply because they have the intelligence to choose the OS
> they use based on features, and not on the 'everyone uses it so it
> must be good' philosophy.

> I also suspect that, if they are free to choose, most RO users will
> move to MacOS rather than Windows for the same reason. (Not all have
> that choice, of course.)

> Therefore I am puzzled as to why there is such a reluctance for
> 'porting' (if that's the right word) RO software to Mac. I'd have
> thought it would be logical (i.e more lucrative) to do that /before/
> porting to Windows.

> It's strange, and quite frustrating, to have some RO products on
> Windows and not on Mac. Mac is a smaller market but with a bigger
> willing customer base for such things.

> So my plea to all active RO software authors is to consider the
> motives of people buying a Mac, against those buying a Windows system.
> Financially, it must be a better bet as most Mac users don't have cost
> as the major reason for buying.

> So, to my mind, both Aaron and Paul (VA and OPro) are missing huge
> opportunities with their work by ignoring MacOS, and our loved RISC OS
> suffers for it.