bigdice67 wrote:Like, you wanna have the good stuff, you gotta pay for it?
Depends on the niche.
With Anti-Virus software the real quality comes in maintaining a threat database, for example, the virus definitions.
Rolling outthese updates in a timely manner requires real-world infrastructure with significant cost.
So for Anti-Virus software on almost any platform you can usualy expect to pay. Thisis as true for PCs as it is for Macs.
What I meant was that one of the big problems with Macs is that the user-base isn't big enough to justify most development costs.
So when someone releases a tool for free, they usually don't have the motivation to make a whole different Mac version and support it.
So any Mac freeware will likely bewritten only by Mac enthusiasts, and there is a smaller pool to draw from.
In addition to this, the Mac demographics are toward the higher income end. Heck, they already pay a premium for image. ;-)
Because Macs tend to be bought by people who don't care that they acn get more for their money there is less of a "free" and "open" culture with Macs than there is with PCs (and with PCs there's less than with *nix boxes).
So the end result is that you have a lot less in way of both commercial and free options available to you. This is the big downside of the Mac and is why the Mac enthusiasts at work (they even buy Volkswagen cars, which are the Macs of cars and they put apple logos on their cars) want PCs in addition to Macs, to do the things Macs won't do.
Today, one of them was asking me if the company would buy Virtual PC for them, it's a windows emulator and she wanted to run it on her Mac.
This is just the way it is, less options is both a boon (in terms of less problems) and a bane (in terms of being able to do less).
But if there isa specific app you need, ask. I'm sure some will have free Mac options.
But it works!, and I didn't have any problems "converting" from one "belief" to another!
