I remember reading about 5 or 10 years ago that the MAC platform was on about 10% of the dektops worldwide. Recently it has dropped to less than 4%, not a good trend. I think that explains why S/W developers have not spent the extra $ & effort to support the MAC platform. It just isn't cost effective.

I see this same topic hashed in other venues of my interest ... electronics design and stock market investing. In a book published around 1996, "Trading 101" the author, S. Harris, stated there were 432 financial S/W programs for the PC and only 36 for the MAC. I would surmise that today this ratio is even more lopsided today.

With PC prices so low, I suspect that sometime it is appropriate to "bite the bullet" and get a PC to run those programs that otherwise are not available on the MAC as suggested by many on this forum.