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jkemers:
Hi,

Any plans to to build MC for Mac OS? I would love it so much!
Apple has been very successful with iPhones, iTunes, iPads. Now strong investment in Mac OS based PCs. Market share is growing.

BUT, there are no good media centers in that world!!!

Only one noticeable is Plex, but it's still underdeveloped and with lot of bugs. Nevertheless, from end of last year Plex is available in Windows.

Any chance to get you to add Mac OS support?

Janis

glynor:
No.

It would be awesome, but they have no plans to do this.

sunfire7:
some time ago there was a topic to see the demand of a mac version of MC, unfortunately there was not enough customers to justify the big amount of job and investment j river would need to do.  :-\

glynor:

--- Quote from: sunfire7 on March 21, 2011, 09:40:41 pm ---some time ago there was a topic to see the demand of a mac version of MC, unfortunately there was not enough customers to justify the big amount of job and investment j river would need to do.  :-\

--- End quote ---

For the record, I think that topic's poll was deeply flawed as a sincere method of determining interest in an OSX version of MC?  How many Mac users are going to come to the forum for a Windows-only, relatively niche piece of software and vote in some random poll to get access to a program that they don't know and love (like we do) because they've never used it before.  They don't know what they're missing, and don't even know who J River is, or why they'd come to Interact.

I don't think Jim was very serious about attempting to gauge interest, and I don't think they intend to develop anything for OSX in any case.  But either way, it was flawed.

MrHaugen:
Flawed or not, I vote no. For the 100'th time.

Mac's can run Windows this days, and when you first use MC to it's fullest there is really no need to use the OS for anything other than basic functions. Why is it so important what OS this runs on?? You can preach all you want about OSx, it will not make a difference. Most users use Windows, for now. And as long as that is a fact, J River will not benefit much of using a bunch of their money on a huge project like this. Just think about keeping two separate versions up to date at the same time as well. It will be less features for all of us.

Use the time for something that will benefit all users instead. Like introducing new features, improving old ones. If the time comes that Steve Jobs have completely taken over the world and holds he's sweaty dictatorish hands above our heads, then I'll move to OSx on my HTPC, and think little more about it.

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