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          Jess Hampshire <j...@itworkshop-nexus.net> wrote:

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.

Jeremy.

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Jeremy Brayshaw     <><