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[Day Permalink] Wednesday, August 21, 2002

[Item Permalink] Does Apple move into science, engineering markets? -- Comment()
The Macintosh News Network writes that Apple moves into science, engineering markets. Perhaps this is so, but my experience points to the opposite direction.

Perhaps the current success of Apple depends on the research topic of the users. At least for serious CAD users there is not too much available on Mac OS X. If there are no applications, there are no users. This applies to chemistry, Earth sciences, structural analysis etc.

What about biosciences, where there has traditionally been a strong Mac userbase? I'm not too sure about the applications in this area. But maybe I'm mistaken.