Re: [OT] Market Share

2015-04-09 Thread Richmond
On 09/04/15 03:08, stephen barncard wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Richmond wrote: I run Linux, Windows and Macintosh, due to the good offices of VMware, in an Optiplex. Really? A virtual "hackentosh" ? you can use a stock install of Yosemite on one of those? Without some kind of 'ja

Re: [OT] Market Share

2015-04-08 Thread stephen barncard
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Richmond wrote: > I run Linux, Windows and Macintosh, due to the good offices of VMware, in > an Optiplex. > Really? A virtual "hackentosh" ? you can use a stock install of Yosemite on one of those? Without some kind of 'jailbreaking' ? -- Stephen Barncard - Seba

Re: [OT] Market Share

2015-04-08 Thread Richmond
On 08/04/15 22:25, stephen barncard wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: Then again you can use statistics to argue anything. Maybe these numbers suggest that there's just a lot of confused programmers seeking answers on OS X ;-) Nah. The main reason, I assume, is because

Re: [OT] Market Share

2015-04-08 Thread stephen barncard
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > Then again you can use statistics to argue anything. Maybe these numbers > suggest that there's just a lot of confused programmers seeking answers on > OS X ;-) > Nah. The main reason, I assume, is because it's the only hardware platform that c

Re: [OT] Market Share

2015-04-08 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > But either way, Linux isn't taking over the desktop any time soon, and > neither is Mac I dropped the original version of my program in '91 or '92, as it was HyperCard/SuperCard dependent, and mac only made about a 1% intrusion into law of

Re: [OT] Market Share

2015-04-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: > It's normally Richard who comes out with the OS Market Share figures > and I must admit I normally sort of switch off at that point because > I've sorta heard it all before - OS X is an ever so small number. I > mean, some of us like chocolate and others strawberry and no amoun

[OT] Market Share

2015-04-08 Thread Kay C Lan
It's normally Richard who comes out with the OS Market Share figures and I must admit I normally sort of switch off at that point because I've sorta heard it all before - OS X is an ever so small number. I mean, some of us like chocolate and others strawberry and no amount of statistics is going to