Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:41:20 07/18/01
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The 1% Palm information came from something I read within the last 2 weeks or so. Every day, I read several Palm-oriented web sites, including PalmInfoCenter, PalmPower News Center, and Palm Boulevard. It may have been one of them or it may have been in a magazine like Palm User, or even in a newspaper article. Sorry that I can't recall the exact source. I agree that the number (less than 1%) seems awful low. As for the Mac information, Macs have been selling for over 17 years and there are tens of millions of them out there. And Mac users are known as fanatical buyers of good software. More and more companies are porting their Windows apps to the Mac because it's often even MORE profitable (there aren't 20 good spreadsheet apps on the Mac, just 3 or 4). I will concede, however, that most tournament-level chess players have PCs, not Macs (or have both), because that's where most of the high-end apps have been. But why would ChessBase (or Chessmaster or Hiarcs...) sell a Mac version if there weren't a market? On July 16, 2001 at 16:36:59, Christophe Theron wrote: >On July 16, 2001 at 15:32:26, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>Well, there are far more Mac users than Palm users. Plus, I just read that >>fewer than 1% of all Palm users have EVER loaded 3rd-party software onto their >>Palm devices! > > >I think you are badly informed. What are your sources for this? > > > Christophe > > > >>There are programmers who specialize in porting software between Mac & Windows. >>I imagine it's a much easier job than creating the Palm version, which you did >>so nicely. It's also undoubtedly a much bigger market, with no significant >>competition at the high end (unless you count Chessmaster 6000). >> >>(PS: I have been known to port software between Mac & Windows myself, although >>it's always been programs that I myself have written.) >> >> >>On July 16, 2001 at 13:36:52, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On July 16, 2001 at 10:49:28, ERIQ wrote: >>> >>>>well since your here what about an engine for all flavors of unix ie, linux, >>>>freebsd, mac x. Too run in xboard. maybe added to rebel so we have to buy cd. >>> >>> >>> >>>I'm sorry but at this time Linux and Mac do not promise any serious income, so I >>>prefer focusing on Windows, PalmOS and PocketPC. It's quite an investment to >>>port the engine to a new OS (even if the engine is written in portable C), so I >>>cannot decide to do it without a strong enough reason. >>> >>> >>> >>> Christophe
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