#Toaster Killed?
I wasn't criticizing your magazine – I like it a lot. I was just worrying
about the phenomenon I've observed of so-called "killer" applications
migrating from the Mac and the Amiga to Windows – ala VistaPro, Photoshop,
etc – or becoming duplicated on Windows. Since unique and powerful
applications like these are among the reasons that people purchase Macs
and Amigas (or so I assume) their migration to Windows leaves people with
fewer reasons to purchase a Mac or an Amiga instead of a computer to run
Windows. And Windows has become a powerful juggernaut. Why develop
anything for the Amiga (or even the Mac) when there are so many more IBM
clones running Windows out there?
I have a large investment of time and money in my Amiga, and I like the
machine and hope to continue with the platform for years to come. But I
also like diversity in the industry. So it isn't the Video Machine per se
that worries me – it's the flocking phenomenon wherein most people will
(in my experience) purchase IBM clones and Windows _without_ considering
the options if there's even a hint of a way to do what they want on
Windows. I don't mean to say everyone is like that – "most" leaves room
for thousands or even millions of people. But it seems to me that as more
and more developers move to Windows, platform diversity is becoming an
endangered species in the computer industry – despite the fact that there
are more PCs than ever.
Paul