[Nathan Zachary]

"it would be nice to see the corporation display a tiny bit of sensitivity to the folks who consistently give this company a 3 percent share of the personal computer market."

Mac's suck. Folks who keep the company on life support with a mere weak pulse of 3% of a nornal 100% are just asking to be left out in the cold in the software availability world. Developers don't like to waste there time on a limited market.

[HAL9000]

Mac's suck. Folks who keep the company on life support with a mere weak pulse of 3% of a nornal 100% are just asking to be left out in the cold in the software availability world. Developers don't like to waste there time on a limited market.

You are misinformed. Here are the latest statistics -

The Software Publishers Association (SPA) estimates that 16% of computer users are on Macs.

According to the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), Macintosh software comprises over 18% of all software sold.

According to US News and World Report, Macintosh owners buy 30% more software than Windows owners.

A key reason for the discrepancy between Mac's large installed base vs. relatively low market share is that high-quality Apple computers don't need to be replaced as frequently as Wintel junk. I have a 27-year old Apple computer that still works, and I expect that my PowerMac G5s will have a longer userful life than your low-quality crap computer.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

To put the "mere" 3% in perspective - that is more than the entire capitalization of all the cable companies in the U.S. combined...

[noblejones]

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Mac's suck. Folks who keep the company on life support with a mere weak pulse of 3% of a nornal 100% are just asking to be left out in the cold in the software availability world. Developers don't like to waste there time on a limited market.
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Dude, you ought to come up and visit my house on Russian Hill in San Francisco, paid for, by the way, by what you call 'marginal' software.

I guess that's why you drive that Yugo instead of a Benz.

[Quinotto]

Mac's suck. Folks who keep the company on life support with a mere weak pulse of 3% of a nornal 100% are just asking to be left out in the cold in the software availability world. Developers don't like to waste there time on a limited market.

MACS do not...suck! But that's usually the opinion of people who either never actually owned one or used it for a few hours and decided they became "experts". I switched to Mac 6 years ago and I am regretting it for not doing it sooner. To the day I haven't experienced one hardware or software problem and there are plenty or resources out there for Mac users. So next time, when facing the "blue screen of death" and missing kernels or DLL files warnings consider this: you are not alone, you are one of millions windows users :)