Re: A2Central News

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <eeeh5c$1rv5$1@merope.saaf.se>,
 pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

> In article <apple22-699D53.09270615092006@news-rdr-03.rdc-kc.rr.com>,
> Greg Buchner  <apple22@mn.rr.com> wrote:
> >In article <eLudnUzmSa_yaZXYnZ2dnUVZ_qWdnZ2d@bresnan.com>,
> > "Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I am also a Windows user 
> >> and I'm okay with that. When I develop an application, I'd like to see it 
> >> ported to other platforms, to give even more people the benifit of using 
> >> it. 
> >
> >It's good to see that you'd like to see apps ported to other platforms.
> >
> >> When a Mac user develops an application, the attitude is "It'll be ported 
> >> to 
> >> Windows over my dead body."
> >
> >Do you not realize that there's loads of Windows programmers who are the 
> >exact same way about Macs?  Even when there's a programmer willing to 
> >sign any type of agreement and do the program on his own time.
> >
> >Maybe us Mac users tend to be like that because there's a goodly portion 
> >of the Windows world tends to dump on us...
> 
> .....and maybe Windows users tend to be like that because there's an
> overwhelmingly portion of the Mac world tend to dump on them.....
> 
> That's what happen when people makes a particular computing environment
> their religion instead of their tool.....

Overwhelming?  Not from my experience.  A very vocal minority, yes.  I 
use Macs, almost solely for my computing experience.  Only other stuff 
is Apple II's.  But I don't have a problem with people using Windows 
machines.  I've recommended them at times.  To me, the Mac isn't a 
religion, it's just the best computing fit for me.  Of all the Mac users 
I know, only a couple really get to be that way and it's mostly from 
their exposure to Windows at work.

However, being near an Apple store in a very busy mall, it's amazing 
what you hear from Windows people outside the store.  I remember once 
being there and a 20 something guy talking to his 20 something friends 
and wondering what everybody in the store would do if he yelled in "You 
all suck!".  I don't know any Mac user who would go that far.  (But I'm 
certain there are Mac people who have that opinion...I just don't know 
any.)

So, overwhelming?  No, I don't see it.

Greg B.

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