[Ti] Market Share: 2.3% -- That's NOT good press, coupled with the loss

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> It is not a market share issue! It is a NUMBERS
> issue.  When the number of Macs was dropping faster than a
> thermometer at the North Pole (1995) there WAS an Exodus of
> developers.  But the NUMBER of Macs being sold and used today is
> enough (and growing) for these folks to make money, hence the
> resurgence of Mac hardware and software

IF this were only true!  The fact is that most software is purchased at the
same time a new computer is purchased.  Fewer computer purchases means fewer
software purchases.  Developers are VERY sensitive to this and investing in
Mac development is a very big IF for many of them whereas developing for
Windows is a given... Because there are so many Windows machines sold.

There are developers that are currently abandoning the Mac platform despite
the  resurgence because of NUMBERS.  NUMBERS (specifically LOW numbers) are
the problem here.