On Feb 7, 2009, at 3:11 AM, Christian Graus wrote:

Well, our prospective Mac users are all in a niche market, they have all seen the marketing for our windows version, and most of them are actually *using* our windows version. So, they WILL be aware of our windows version, they ARE using the Windows version and waiting for the Mac version, and when
the Mac version comes, they WILL judge it against the Windows version.


They might, but I guarantee you they'll hold the UI to totally different standards. Microsoft already tried this with Word 6 and Excel 5 on Windows 3.1 and Mac OS 7. The Mac versions were near-clones of the Windows versions, because Microsoft assumed at the time that users wanted full synchronicity between platforms. It turned out that Mac users didn't like Windows-like UIs, so they didn't sell very well. Microsoft put the previous versions (which had far more Mac-like UIs) back up for sale, and when Word 7 & Excel 6 went into development, they gave them a far more Mac-like UI. That worked wonders for their sales.

Very little has changed since then. I've seen quite a few Mac OS X applications out there, almost all of which were ports or Java apps, that looked and felt like Windows apps. They're not exactly popular.

The moral of the story is, when in Rome...

Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>



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