Wednesday, April 10, 2002

Try this test. Go to a venture firm, angel, or big company with a Mac OS X product/concept/prototype. Do they consider the fact that it's a Mac application a net plus? (No.) Do they say "It makes a lot of sense to test this concept in the Mac market because Mac users love to experiment with new app ideas and if it's successful in Mac land, it's going to be successful on other platforms?" (No.) 10:11:44 AM

Independent Mac Developers: Next year, let's take the money we would have each paid to go to Apple's WWDC to have them preach to us, tell us how great they are, watch our markets disappear with each new release of free iThis and iThat apps, etc and put the money into a venture fund exclusively for Mac developers. Apple could even take the money they'd save--no need to pay expensive product managers to "spin" things--and invest it in the fund! 10:01:10 AM

Apple plays the congratulations game! Cool! http://www.apple.com/ I'd love to see them congratulate a new partner, customer, etc. every few days. apple.com/win_win.html :-) It would be among the most visited pages on apple.com! http://wmf.editthispage.com/discuss/msgReader$7369?mode=day 9:54:39 AM

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