I bet if they looked into it, a big percentage of people who previously bought NBC content from iTunes were in fact Mac users. I think alienating a market share that not only indicates millions of users, but has been growing steadily is just plain stupid. Many Mac users are early adopters to new technologies, which in turn influence many others to follow suit, be it on a PC or Mac? I personally know quite a few. If you remove them from the equation, the rate at which your software use will not grow as fast. There may be less Mac users, but many influence a lot of others be it positve or negative. Make it PC only, now you have a whole group of users that will advocate against your product, period. Hire better programmers, your NBC - you have the cash. Besides, if they lack the skills develop a Mac version, how lousy is the PC version going to be?
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silly peacock @ Sep 20th 2007 10:54AM
I bet if they looked into it, a big percentage of people who previously bought NBC content from iTunes were in fact Mac users. I think alienating a market share that not only indicates millions of users, but has been growing steadily is just plain stupid. Many Mac users are early adopters to new technologies, which in turn influence many others to follow suit, be it on a PC or Mac? I personally know quite a few. If you remove them from the equation, the rate at which your software use will not grow as fast. There may be less Mac users, but many influence a lot of others be it positve or negative.
Make it PC only, now you have a whole group of users that will advocate against your product, period. Hire better programmers, your NBC - you have the cash. Besides, if they lack the skills develop a Mac version, how lousy is the PC version going to be?
I predict failure on this effort by NBC.