People have told me that there are no games for the Mac.
I try to be polite.
But they are wrong. As a glance at the homge page of gaming software giant
Aspyr proves.
A lot of
games for the Mac have recently been released by Aspyr.
In addition, played a little WarCraft 3 from my Mac, alongside other Mac and/or PC players this week.
I also finally broke down adn bought
World of WarCraft - after putting it off for a couple of years.
In addition to soudning like fun and being well within the capabilities of my current Mac hardware, it has some technical things that I would like to experiment with.
One of those things is Lua, a pretty powerful scripting language. Also, it uses OpenGL, and I want ot see waht the state of the art in OpenGL 3D graphics programming can do these days.
Also, most people I know have modern enough computer now that they can enjoy it with me.
I may not remain a devoted player for a long time, but I am willing to give it a shake.
Apple has climbed to the #4 postion in the US with over six percent of the US computer market share.
Everything Apple: Apple holds 6.1% US computer market shareJudging from the way I saw high school aged kids crowding around the Macs the last time I was at an Apple store, that number could climb a bit more before the end of the Christmas shopping season.
Parents tend to want the best for their kids.
They like educational gifts that help their kids get smarter.
They do not like high maintenance gadgets because the duty of fixing - or paying to fix them - rolls back on them.
Macs do not require an IT department, hundred dollar trips to the Geek Squad at Best Buy to do backups or delousing, and weekend afternoons spent scraping the ads and bugs off the disk.
No wonder the Mac keeps eating up the PC market share.
I wonder when the overhang in the home market will spill over onto the business market.
Two more PC disasters and one more Mac killer app should just about do it.
The
My Dream App site offers passionate software developers - and interested by-standards - to drive what
killer apps
come out in the future.
It is a neat website, and they even have an
RSS feed of the latest news about the contest.
Some of the screenshots of the competing apps look pretty breath-taking.
