Why doesn't one of the smart, ambitious, young developers here at HN, who is probably looking for a side project develop an Omnigraffle or Soulver clone and start selling it? I can understand why the Omnigraffle people themselves are too busy driving expensive cars through the hills around Silicon Valley to do so themselves.
Considering how many time-waste-ish sites we see come through here in "Rate My Site" form, it's clear that there's plenty of dev-power getting squandered on a daily basis.
I've just given two concrete examples of applications that real people are paying real money to use. Personally, if I had the time I'd be spending it building WinSoulver rather than BigAssTextMessage.com.
Conversion rate for BCC on Macs is nearly double that of Windows. I have always attributed it to my stunning design, rigid adherence to the HIG, and use of cutting-edge Mac-centric programming languages like Java Swing. ;)
I've also generally found that even the "my first program EVAR" projects are very frequently functional, stable, and integrate with 90% of the apps most people use (built-in ones, and ones compatible with those).
Try saying that about Windows applications.
I've also had far far far fewer headaches, crashes, and general "wtf" moments with my app-testing habits on OSX than I have on Windows, and I'm clocking 2,000-3,000 (or higher) on OSX and well over 5,000 on Windows. Seriously.
Why doesn't one of the smart, ambitious, young developers here at HN, who is probably looking for a side project develop an Omnigraffle or Soulver clone and start selling it? I can understand why the Omnigraffle people themselves are too busy driving expensive cars through the hills around Silicon Valley to do so themselves.
Considering how many time-waste-ish sites we see come through here in "Rate My Site" form, it's clear that there's plenty of dev-power getting squandered on a daily basis.
I've just given two concrete examples of applications that real people are paying real money to use. Personally, if I had the time I'd be spending it building WinSoulver rather than BigAssTextMessage.com.