Re: Animated toolbar
Re: Animated toolbar
- Subject: Re: Animated toolbar
- From: Christian Graus <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 09:40:28 +1100
Fair enough.
I guess that brings this discussion to a close, so thanks to everyone who
responded. It's been very valuable to me, even if it didn't go in the
direction I was hoping. It's certainly convinced me that our toolbar needs
to go, although what we replace it with, I have no idea at this stage.....
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Feb 7, 2009, at 3:11 AM, Christian Graus wrote:
>
> Well, our prospective Mac users are all in a niche market, they have all
>> seen the marketing for our windows version, and most of them are actually
>> *using* our windows version. So, they WILL be aware of our windows
>> version,
>> they ARE using the Windows version and waiting for the Mac version, and
>> when
>> the Mac version comes, they WILL judge it against the Windows version.
>>
>
>
> They might, but I guarantee you they'll hold the UI to totally different
> standards. Microsoft already tried this with Word 6 and Excel 5 on Windows
> 3.1 and Mac OS 7. The Mac versions were near-clones of the Windows versions,
> because Microsoft assumed at the time that users wanted full synchronicity
> between platforms. It turned out that Mac users didn't like Windows-like
> UIs, so they didn't sell very well. Microsoft put the previous versions
> (which had far more Mac-like UIs) back up for sale, and when Word 7 & Excel
> 6 went into development, they gave them a far more Mac-like UI. That worked
> wonders for their sales.
>
> Very little has changed since then. I've seen quite a few Mac OS X
> applications out there, almost all of which were ports or Java apps, that
> looked and felt like Windows apps. They're not exactly popular.
>
> The moral of the story is, when in Rome...
>
> Nick Zitzmann
> <http://www.chronosnet.com/>
>
>
>
>
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