[softwarelist] Re: OPro for Mac?
- From: Jack Evans <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:31:28 +0000 (GMT)
On 19 Nov, David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <4f443a4875jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jack Evans
> <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >I'm sure that David will have assessed this from his viewpoint,
> >taking account of his priorities, and I wonder what his thoughts are
> >now in the present circumstanes.
> I don't think I am about to do a Mac version of OP.
> I am inclined to think that I should have taken Acorn's advice and
> gone off to work on the Mac (in 1996!). I didn't because I've never
> had anything to do with Macs, I felt there was competition in the
> form of Quark, I couldn't believe Acorn were packing up and at the
> time the Mac looked to be in trouble.
> The Windows version represents years of work (probably as much effort
> as went into the RISC OS original). It has not paid off. Yes I've not
> marketed it well enough. However I feel it does not do enough to be
> competitive. So I'm left in the position I have been in before, if I
> do a few more years work then it might sell. Then again behind the
> next mountain there may be yet another one to climb.
> Doing a Mac version would be another gamble on the same lines as
> Windows, perhaps two years full time work, at the end of which someone
> will say "oh it would be OK if only it did XYZ".
Thanks David for being so frank. Obviously it wouldn't make much sense
for you. (Unless you wanted to prove to yourself that it could be done -
and we live in a real world!).
:-(
Regards
Jack
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