Double Yeah Baby!!

Fred

The pole contains only 15 votes! By all means, I would not call this representative. It might indicate a trend, however, to draw any conclusion from this, there are a lot of more votes necessry.

Thomas

Poll is now 16 out of 23.
One of the most respected members of the LL forum said...

 "Give Credit where Credit is due.

Using Qimage for I guess 10 years or so. Have a RIP but never use it".

Thanks Ernst.  I appreciate both.  We've got a good group here and I have to appreciate the "tough love" I get here.  I'd worry more if we never had any spirited discussions because when those cease, I would wonder if no one cared any more. 

Mike

I don't particularly like Windows 7 (http://ddisoftware.com/tech/articles/november-2009-win7-microsoft%27s-defiant-child/) but the Mac and it's OS were 10x worse for me (http://ddisoftware.com/tech/articles/may-2010-some-sour-apples/).  I have no plans to support the Mac.  It is clear that no matter how much the Mac-ites want to claim that Macs are used more for photography than PC's, that is far from the truth.  There was a day (maybe 10 years ago) when Macs were used more for video, and the myth that they are used more for photography is rooted there and has never been true!

Fact is, I must make good business decisions and rewriting a program as extensive as Qimage for a platform that will never see more than 7-10% market share is just insane.  Here are a couple of facts that have convinced me not to give the Mac another thought at this time:

(1) A petition for "Qimage on the Mac" was created over 4 years ago.  It was heavily promoted and announced on literally EVERY online forum back when it was released.  To date, it could only muster 235 signatures, and some of those were even people saying "No.  Don't make a Mac version.  I want Mike to concentrate on the Windows version".  If that got 100x the signatures, I may have raised an eyebrow.  As it stands, this is only proof that the Mac is barely a blip on the radar and that in contrast to Macs being popular, Mac users are just more outspoken.

(2) I've run statistics on my site recently.  The amount of traffic coming to my site shows 7.8% for the Mac and 89.5% for Windows.  Even if I eliminate the bias and filter it to just show search traffic where people are searching for photo printing software and other terms that land on Qimage, the Mac only jumps to 12%.

None of this is intended as insult.  I realize there are people (albeit less than 10% of computer users) who love the Mac.  I've tried the Mac and couldn't stand it.  Between the overpriced and underperforming hardware and the toyish nature of it's OS and peripherals, it looked like nothing more than a trendy thing to me.  Apple spends a lot of money putting their computers in movies and TV shows to make them look "cool".  It worked for them when they released the iPod and the iPhone, two products that I think saved them from bankruptcy.  There are some things to like about Apple as a company "for the masses", but it's my observation that they are not significantly gaining in the computing market.  But as evidenced above, I do keep my eye on things and when they become a blip on the radar that is more than just a bird flying in front of the ship... I'll reevaluate.

Mike