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David Alison
Back in 1998 I launched WebSurveyor, a tool for building online surveys. Over time I added some partners (Tom Lueker and Bruce Mancinelli), we got some angel funding and slowly we built up a pretty successful business. Actually it wasn't so slow - we managed to hit the Inc 500 list a couple of years in a row. Without going into too much detail in the begining of 2006 we began talking to some folks about selling the company and finally hitting our equity event. In June of 2006 we sold the company to Austin Ventures, an Austin, TX based venture and equity firm. They bought both us and Perseus, a competitor of ours, and merged the two companies together. I was asked to stay on board and be the CTO of the new venture, now named Vovici. After a little over a year of working as an employee of the company I used to own I decided to move on. I learned a lot about building a company and really want to get a chance to put that experience to good use. I am now in the early stage of starting my next company. I am writing this blog in part because I need a little respite from being in startup mode all the time.
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#1 reason: I can get a PC for $400.
They were true once, but now that Apples are moving to a PC platform it's changed.
And, someone should tell Dave that Apple now makes "Macs", Not "Macintoshs".
My software isn’t written for Mac. Yes, I know I could use VMWare or something similar to run my PC software on the Mac. Or I could just run the software on the OS it was designed for.
MACS are PC’s now, so who cares? Now that they have X86 chips in them like PC’s, we are all in similar boats.
I would call that reality distorted, requiring three fingers is hardly better than only needing one. The other problem I have with Apple is the difficulty in getting apps to use the full screen, especially the browser. Minor problems indeed, but no O/S is perfect.
My wife has long used / needed a Mac, as she is an artist — and Macs have long dominated professional artist industries. But I rightly held off.
In the past few years, the prices have tumbled, BootCamp came along, etc.
Will have to consider a Mac very strongly for “my” next computer.
I-bump
I am reading this on a PC and doing just fine.
Bookmark.
(I’m now running on reserve power).
Now I've never cared for the Windows OS - every PC I've owned has always had the shell replaced with one of my choosing, usually Litestep, including the Vista laptop I'm currently posting from, so I approached using Macs with a fairly open mind.
But the many little irritating things about the Mac OS have come together into one conclusion - I will never purchase one.
Have the object bar (which btw, I run on my Vista via Stardock's ObjectDock) set to auto-hide? Then you can't drag-and-drop to it.
Have the program window open, like Photoshop, and want to drag your image from your Finder window? Nope - you've got to drag it down to the icon on the Dock.
Want to replace the shell with a different one? Nope.
Want to change the look and feel of the GUI? Nope. Maybe add a background image to your Finder windows, but that's about it.
Use a custom cursor? Nope.
Instead of using Mac's I-Movie for video editing on the school's Mac towers I'm using Power Director on my laptop.
And for God's sake - someone please tell me how to go to 'home' and 'end' of a sentence in a browser window! Really - I have to use their Macs I want to know.
Luigi.
I know I'm being nasty but so is that drunken slob.
:-)