Mac users, raise your hands!

Jon Stewart said:

Jon Stewart wrote:
your only response is to attack him personally.

..and in such a trite unhumerous manner. At least you could think
of a funnier way of putting it.

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Jon Stewart
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lhsmith said:

This is an informal poll, intended to give some idea of the number
of DPR visitors who use a Mac AND a Canon digi-SLR. (The number
will be helpful for software designerslike Chris Breeze, in
deciding whethjer to market something like BreezeBrowser for Mac).

If you're a Mac kind-of -person, please stand up and be counted ;-)

Thanks,

Larry

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. AC Gounaris said:

I use a G3 Powerbook 500 (pismo).

btw, a note to PC users that responded to this thread (greg, pips
etc): GET A LIFE!!

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lhsmith said:

This is an informal poll, intended to give some idea of the number
of DPR visitors who use a Mac AND a Canon digi-SLR. (The number
will be helpful for software designerslike Chris Breeze, in
deciding whethjer to market something like BreezeBrowser for Mac).

If you're a Mac kind-of -person, please stand up and be counted ;-)

Thanks,

Larry

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lhsmith said:

gary shepard said:

Larry -

Maybe you should check just whose post I was referring to...

It wasn't yours, it was Zidar,

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I understood that Gary,

Larry H. Smith said:

who said "Professional photographers
and graphic designers overwhelmingly choose Mac." That statement
wasn't in the spirit of your original query either, was it?

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Only if true, then it would lend support to the notion that a Mac
version of Breezebrowser was a viable notion.

Larry H. Smith said:

Why didn't you address him directly and tell him not to spew
inflammatory one-liners, which simply aren't true.

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Because I don't know that it ISN'T true (or that it is!)

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Larry H. Smith said:

Larry H. Smith said:

Remarks like
that have traditionally started many "wars" here, in the Dodge City
of newsgroups.

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Yes I know, ...that's why I encouraged you not to "bite" IF YOU
THOUGHT it was "flame bait". I'm not sure that it was (or was
meant-to-be). It may have simply been an honest opinion.

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Larry H. Smith said:

Larry H. Smith said:

Oh, and by the way, I wasn't suggesting that this thread (which you
started) should end; rather I was questioning why people still
imply that the Mac is the do-all, end-all when it comes to graphics
intensive computing.

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A fair question, to which I don't-know the answer. But not the
point of the thread,...and without the possible "lending of
support' that I mentioned believing I saw in Zidar's post.

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Larry H. Smith said:

Larry H. Smith said:

I really believe that you misread my post entirely. As I stated, I
own a Powerbook as well as a PC. So I feel that I can be objective
about this topic.

Peace...

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I read you correctly, and I like the "peace" idea. That's why I
suggested not shooting back, ...there's at least a CHANCE that no
one was shooting at YOU. (And I didn't start this thread to see a
fight ;-)

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Larry H. Smith said:

Best wishes,

Larry

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lhsmith said:

Not entirely. If I know that I will not market a product unless
(let's say)
x people want to buy it, and > x people respond positively, I
know that I am over-the-thresh-hold, and can go ahead. This is
regardless of their % re. y.

Your suggestion is of course correct, but read my lips, I am lazy,
...I do not want to spend the time to deal with all the
(multiple-restart because of the 150 post limit) threads that would
be involved with a bunch of PC user reponses.

This is only one of a number of photosites. If a given number , in
a given time, respond positively here, some interpolation can be
(roughly) done, to get at least a positive-or-negative "tone"
reading.

So far the positive responses have been acrueing at better than
10/hr(on a workday morning). We'll see how it goes, ...feel free to
do another one any way YOU want, if you have sufficient interest (I
would appreciate your not starting it until this one has run its
course, though, since I already "bothered" to get it going ;-)

Thanks,

Larry

Bill(y) said:

Including a count of PC respondees allows you to guage the value of
the sample and determine %age factors. Knowing x of y respondees
use a mac says more about the value of the number x than x without
y.....

(BTW, I'm a mac user.)

Otherwise, the total responses or the "sample" is completely
divorced from any larger context like what %age of all mac users
bothered to respond and finally what %age of all EOS Dxxx users
are mac users.
The numbers will be meaningless without context.

Bill

lhsmith said:

But I don't want to count 4 million PC posts to find out what I
want to know, which is "How many Mac (etc.) users are on DPR?"

There are many ways to skin a cat. Anyone can start any poll in any
form THEY wish, Perhaps you'll let us Mac'ers do this one(?) .

RichW said:

That way you could get a percentage and extrapolate the total
number of users rather than just the number who respond to your
poll.

I'm a PC user.

Rich

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zidar said:

Professional photographers and graphic designers overwhelmingly
choose Mac. If a software product is aimed at the enthusiast
market, then PC only is fine. But for serious work graphics
programs must be written for Mac operating system. With OSX moving
into the mainstream among Mac users this will be even more true.

James Mason
Alaska

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lhsmith said:

This is an informal poll, intended to give some idea of the number
of DPR visitors who use a Mac AND a Canon digi-SLR. (The number
will be helpful for software designerslike Chris Breeze, in
deciding whethjer to market something like BreezeBrowser for Mac).

If you're a Mac kind-of -person, please stand up and be counted ;-)

Thanks,

Larry

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Kjeld Olesen said:

Well, this is a hard one.

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Kjeld Olesen said:

Now, obviously I am a PC user. I do not think one is necessarily
better that the other, but as a developer myself
( http://home.get2net.dk/acaclone/ ) I see the division of the
computer world into the Mac and PC sections as a tremendous loss of
development power, and I have chosen to neglect developing my
software for the Mac section.

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Kjeld Olesen said:

OK, this was only a call for people to raise their hands and be
counted, so that other developers could make a decision whether to
develop for the Mac section or not. And that is fair enough!

However, for the PC section potentially the consequence will be
that less development power will be used for improving the
software’s for that section. And for this we PC users must raise
our hands and be counted to prevent.

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• Nico Ramos (not a Ph. D.)

Jon Stewart said:

your only response is to attack him personally.

..and in such a trite unhumerous manner. At least you could think
of a funnier way of putting it.

--
Jon Stewart
[email protected]

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