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Originally Posted by ApeintheShell  The reason I don't like Yahoo! and MSN is because they favor Windows PCs for software development. We get features that should be normal much later on. If it weren't for Apple's iChat messenger than we wouldn't be able to use audio/video chat. |
In all fairness, 99% of their business probably comes from windows PC's so its a lot cheaper to just hire a windows dev team. Apple is the underdog so I would think that apple should be the one offering some kind of windows compatability tools to help in these kinds of situations.
If I had a company making ummm lets say fiberglass car bumpers and the majority of my business came from GM cars and only a small percentage from Ford cars but the cost of making the actual mold that I use to create the bumpers were the same (same work involved to make them), then I'd be inclined to just take the slight amount of lost business but at the same time save money not making the molds - or in this case with the software companies, they dont have to have the dev team so the cost of not paying the team probably cancels out any lost sales.
Its the same thing for Linux flavours and other non MS operating systems. I'm not sure if Wine works well in OSX but maybe that can be used to run some small windows apps no?