[Bush2000]

At the chain stores only. There's loads -- enough to do everything I need -- online and at Apple stores

The operative word being "loads". As in piles.

I guess so. I can't seem to find a copy of Maya, SPSS or Oracle 10g either, so I guess they're crap since the chains don't stock them. Or maybe the reality is that chains don't stock stuff that moves such low volume.

Don't be asinine. We're talking about broadly used desktop apps, not that load of specialized crap.

[antiRepublicrat]

The operative word being "loads". As in piles.

I know, all that crappy software like Office, the Adobe and Macromedia suites, and excellent products such as Xcode (development), Xgrid (cluster computing), Xsan (file storage) and Final Cut Pro HD (video editing) -- all not available for the PC. And don't forget all the high-end scientific UNIX apps available for OS X, and not Windows.

We're talking about broadly used desktop apps, not that load of specialized crap.

Exactly. To a retail chain in a consumer PC world, Mac software, and even Mac versions of PC software, is not "broadly used," just like Maya and SPSS. Therefore, they're not carried.