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Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit

From	Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit
Date	2015-09-13 12:07 -0400
Organization	None
Message-ID	<mt46sr$a3t$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<mt43n9$g6q$1@news.albasani.net>

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Nobody wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

>
> http://www.macnn.com/articles/04/12/30/developer.exits.mac.market/
>
> Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit
>
> updated 09:05 am EST, Thu December 30, 2004
>
> Developer exits Mac market
>
> Bleu Rose Ltd. has said it will . Citing a "shrinking Mac base" and an 
> increased rate of piracy as its most significant factors, the company 
> said on its website that Black & Bleu v10 will be the last version of 
> its Mac OS error code analyzer for developers. The company also said 
> that Apple's product quality and lack of developer support as other 
> reasons behind its business decision: "...Apple's seeming lack of 
> concern about compatibility across its product versions and the alarming 
> problem with its software quality (over 100,000 new bugs reported during 
> the months of October & November, 2004 alone) ...

I remember when the trade press was yammering about the "64,000" bugs of
Windows 2000.

How come no talk of bug counts in Windows these days?  Did they reduce
the defect rate to 0?  :-D

-- 
It's lucky you're going so slowly, because you're going in the wrong direction.

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Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-13 10:11 -0500
  Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-13 10:15 -0500
    Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Edward Milano <milano58_remove_no_spam@post.com> - 2015-09-13 15:26 +0000
      Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-13 10:34 -0500
        Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2015-09-14 02:52 -0700
  Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Edward Milano <milano58_remove_no_spam@post.com> - 2015-09-13 15:25 +0000
    Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-13 10:30 -0500
  Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-09-13 12:07 -0400
    Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-13 13:17 -0500
      Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 02:44 +0000
        Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-13 19:59 -0700
        Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 14:09 +0000
          Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-14 16:49 +0200
            Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2015-09-14 17:14 +0100
              Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 16:18 +0000
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-14 18:30 +0200
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2015-09-14 23:03 +0100
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 22:18 +0000
              Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-17 20:23 -0500
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-17 18:27 -0700
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-18 09:20 +0200
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-18 07:59 -0700
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-18 17:58 +0200
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-18 09:12 -0700
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-18 18:56 +0200
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-18 11:32 -0700
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-09-18 12:50 -0400
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-18 18:54 +0200
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-18 10:02 -0700
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-09-18 13:33 -0400
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-18 19:51 +0200
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-18 13:04 -0500
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-18 11:31 -0700
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-18 11:08 -0700
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-09-18 22:05 -0400
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-18 19:16 -0700
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-18 10:17 -0700
            Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-09-14 11:53 -0600
              Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 17:57 +0000
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-09-14 21:22 -0600
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-09-15 09:51 +0200
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 15:55 +0000
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-09-15 14:51 -0600
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-09-15 14:51 -0600
            Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-09-17 20:21 -0500
              Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 01:29 +0000
                Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-09-17 18:36 -0700
              Re: Declining Mac base, piracy, Apple quality force exit chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-18 06:57 -0500

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