Hi Mike,
thanks for writing (i don't read your answer
).
Seriously: i can understand you've no time perhaps to develop and improve 2 different version but what about thinking to give the project to a third part developer that can help you in doing that ?
You're really so 'close' to many of us, Mac users, that are silently waiting for years for a native Mac version of your outstanding program ?
I understand. I don't listen to the "Hi, I'm a Mac" commercials either.
I've actually done all the research. That includes more than a few meetings with a Mac programmer to get a good estimate of the time and money required to make a Mac version. When I saw the astronomical numbers (Qimage is a BIG program), I even bought a Mac and really tried to embrace it, hoping that maybe on my "spare" time I could develop it myself. That landed me on this article:
http://ddisoftware.com/tech/articles/may-2010-some-sour-apples/Fact is, it's just not worth the effort. Even with all the hype and the trendiness, and Apple paying all the TV networks and movie producers to have their shows/movies display the Apple logo on the back of computers in the shot, the Mac still can't break 10% market share. To me, that's a big problem. A few years ago, a petition was opened to get Qimage on the Mac. In recent years, it could only muster 235 signatures! See
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/qimage_for_mac/signatures. If that number had been 100x that, I might work harder to try for a Mac version. As it stands, what it proves to me is that the Mac user base (especially the "converts" who might use Qimage) is vocal... but very small.
Add all that to the fact that you can already run Qimage on a newer model Mac... and it's
really not worth it!
Mike