Digital BW, The Print

px3n120x wrote:

>Since you think you know better, why not start your own win32 software company to 
>satisfy that huge market you talk about and fill your pockets at the same time. 
>  
>
SNIP

> 
>Missed market opportunity? Arrogance?
>  
>

I didn't decide to start my own software division/company as Bowhaus 
already has.

More saliently, I'm not the one whose press releaser from March 25, 2003 
says, in part:  "A Windows and OS X version of Inkjet Control will be 
announced soon."  Bowhaus is the one who made that PUBLIC commitment..  
At the very least, if what I hear is true, they owe the user 
community/public an update or correction of the old press release.

[As for your name calling and personal attack upon me I'd be VERY 
careful about crossing that line on this list.. Antonis and Martin have 
a history of little tolerance for such behavior on this list.. If you 
want to engage in personal  invective feel free to e-mail me offlist and 
I'll gladly respond in kind..]

OTOH:  I'm not wholly surprised by the passion shown or the way this is 
taken personally  by some in discussing this topic.  There seems to be, 
among some Mac-o-philes at least, a tendency to over-the-top defenses of 
products that are offered only on  Mac OS's - an attitude you rarely see 
among Windoze users (I have and do use BOTH OS's - and have equally 
castigated vendors for dropping Mac OS support, or failing to offer 
products in Mac versions that had particular use or no competing/similar 
product type offerings in the Mac market - I also do use Linux and have 
even participated in BETA'ing commercial products for the graphics 
market ported to Linux - so, I'm no OS pig/snob).  In thinking about 
this, it may be an outgrowth of the frustration of many Mac users at the 
vast amount of product offered only for WinTel - a kind of OS-based 
"good for you.. see what we deal with all the time?"..  The fact is, it 
doesn't change the economics of the decision.  I'd ask defenders and 
current users of OPM/IJC to step back for a moment and separate the 
economics from the OS issues.. This is not a Mac vs. WinTel issue, so 
let's not turn it into a nasty little subset of that debate. It's about 
whether one company is going to maintain fidelity with their press 
release and product pronouncements. It's about what effect a deviation 
from promises made might have for them and the broader market they might 
serve,  as well as what effect those same decisions could have upon the 
OS base they ALREADY serve.   If you use OPM/IJC, ask yourself this: "is 
it better for end-users if more inkset vendors/manufacturers support the 
product more broadly, and is that support more or less likely without a 
WinTel version?"

The broader the vendor/manufacturer support, the better for ALL users in 
the B&W digital niche market.
 

 
Keith Krebs

"Just some guy," and caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSON_Printers/
 
"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"