Due to the large amount of friends etc that now use Macs instead of PC's and the difficulty in transferring gedcom files in the format originally written.I am wondering are there any plans to have Family Historian for Macs and if not why not? Seeing as more Macs are now sold than PC's the potenial of a cross platform product seems more obvious by each passing day. I myself have come to the conclusion I will at some stage cease using windows products due to its on going crap software,like many others have.When that happens at the current rate I will also have to sadly look for an alternative to Family Historian to. Best regards Adam

Adam, "Seeing as more Macs are now sold than PC's (sic)" Not just yet. Possibly you are mistaking sales growth percentages for absolute sales numbers. Recent "analysis of Apple's sales figures and the numbers from Gartner and IDC shows that in the second quarter of 2010, Apple hit 4% of the whole PC market for the first time in more than ten years"* True, Apples sales figures are showing impressive sales growth percentages compared to PCs (where the sales growth has slipped, but is still growing, just slower), but at just over 4% of the market they have rather a long way to go before they sell more Macs than PCs. And a lot of Apple's growth is in iThingies, rather than the PC market. Don't get me wrong, Macs are great, but I wouldn't wait for Calico to bring out a native Mac version; I doubt there's enough money in it to make the major initial and ongoing investment required to develop and maintain two versions worthwhile. In the meantime, buy a Mac if you want one and use a Windows VM to run FH. Plenty of advice on the FH Mailing list and FHUG about this. John * <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/may/24/apple-sales-growth-pc-market> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/may/24/apple-sales-growth-pc-market _____ From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Adam's Eden Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:32 AM To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: [FHU] Regarding Macs are there any plans to have Family Historian for Macs & if not why not? Due to the large amount of friends etc that now use Macs instead of PC's and the difficulty in transferring gedcom files in the format originally written.I am wondering are there any plans to have Family Historian for Macs and if not why not? Seeing as more Macs are now sold than PC's the potenial of a cross platform product seems more obvious by each passing day. I myself have come to the conclusion I will at some stage cease using windows products due to its on going crap software,like many others have.When that happens at the current rate I will also have to sadly look for an alternative to Family Historian to. Best regards Adam ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____ avast! <http://www.avast.com> Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 28/09/2011 Tested on: 29/09/2011 08:37:35 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2011 AVAST Software. _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 28/09/2011 Tested on: 29/09/2011 09:01:55 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2011 AVAST Software.