Article:		Developer Notes from WWDC 2003
Subject:		The Masses
Date:		2003-06-24 16:10:32
From:		anonymous2
Response to: The Masses
hmmm...i thought he meant the Mac masses. i think he's right about that, too...it's a given that the Wintel masses have no clue, but even the Mac masses don't have a clue as to how amazing the infrastructure of OSX is...and that's not a slight on Mac users. it's just that the masses are not programmers and developers. there's no need to take offense.

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• The Masses
  2003-06-25 10:34:07  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  There are at least as many Windows users (if not a lot more) than can understand the inner workings of OSX. It's a fine, fine operating platform. That's not to say that I think it's practical.... yet.
  
  To back this up... I'm not even sure what the Windows market share is these days, but we'll just say it's still well over 50%, and Apple has 5%, so at least 10 times the users. Out of those users, how many hardcore developers are there? Compared to Apple developers? I'd venture to say there's a lot more Windows people out there that can really understand the inner workings of OSX and how great it's merits are. That still doesn't change marketshare, income per app developed, etc. MOST developers (commercial, not hobby/shareware) are interested in making money by developing software, it's their profession. When you want to make money, you target the largest audience.
  
  I'm not so sure that the masses can't understand the inner workings enough to see the beauty of OSX. I think it's more like "the masses don't care about the inner beauty of operating system design". They probably care more about buying a practical solution to their needs.
• The Masses
  2003-06-25 15:30:48  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  "masses" usually means a large percentage or a significant majority. of course there are more developers on the wintel side just as a function of their huge market share...but the masses of pc users are not developers. market share is high b/c of all the personal users who love the cheap systems and all those businesses. but for all those users in business, only a small percentage are developers and techs that know what's going on. i'm willing to bet that the average mac user knows more about the underpinnings of the os than does the average pc user...