Fair enough. I guess that brings this discussion to a close, so thanks to everyone who responded. It's been very valuable to me, even if it didn't go in the direction I was hoping. It's certainly convinced me that our toolbar needs to go, although what we replace it with, I have no idea at this stage.....
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Nick Zitzmann <n...@chronosnet.com> wrote: > > 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/> > > > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
