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darren hayles <darren@renful.demon.co.uk> wrote:

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> The reason i buy Macs is because Windows is so shit, such a clumsy OS
> unfortunatly i have to use them for development because that is what
> 95%(estimated) of the end users are using.

You need to be careful about these estimates.  We're told that Apple's
current market share is about 5%, which would lead you to believe that
95% of PC users use Wintel.  This isn't the case: it's estimated that
40% of all Macs ever made are still in use, which is *far* higher than
the proportion of Wintel PCs still in use, and Apple's market share has
been higher than the current 4-5% for most of the life of the Mac.
68000 Macs are still *popular*, believe it or not.  Who uses an 8086 PC?

This ignores PCs like Archimedes and Amigas, both of which are
significant in the UK.

But the Apple figures I've quoted are not British figures, so it's
likely that 95% of PC users in this country *do* use Wintel.

> QT3.0 since i downloaded it of the apple site has made life a hell of
> alot easier for cross platform authoring

What are you writing?  I take it you work in video/graphics?  (I mention
this because QT 3 has had no effect at all on my cross-platform writing,
but that's because I use software which is inherently 100%
cross-platform compatible to produce text output).

Rowland.


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