Where Blogger Fails (or, My Gripe with Internet Companies)

Well I'm not that into blogging so I can't say I care much about this. Heck I don't even own Office. But point taken from E-Rock. The Mac world often isn't a world of glorious choice but rather a world of quality and good design. What good is choice if you never use it? If choice matters more to you then quality then you are the archetype of a windows user. Google estimated how many Mac users that would use this feature if they gave it to them. They probably came up with the answer; not that many. I think they made the right decision. I hope they put there Mac developers on something more better. Something that more Mac users might actually use.

I hate this sweet lemons attitude from my Mac community. 'Why would you use so-and-so when such-and-such exists?' Well, maybe just maybe I'd like the option! The Mac world is really a world of few options. I don't want to have to use ITunes to buy music! As a Yahoo fan, I love Yahoo's products, and maybe I'd like to use YME on my Mac! Maybe I'd like to watch music videos at one of the many websites that don't support mac! Have you been beaten into submission that you just accept whatever scraps are tossed your way? Mac users have to pay for Mars-edit or Ecto while PC users have better tools for free! Thank god I'm a multiple OS home.

Why would you want to blog from Word anyway?

I don't know, CK, I see your point, but, somehow, I just can't seem to get excited over it. If this was three years ago, or even last year, than yeah, I would've been all over this like a rabid dog. But now, I'm seeing a bigger picture emerging. Up until recently, my biggest pet peeve about Mac was the lack of high-quality, low-cost applications - if I wanted professional-like photo editing software, the only way to go was to fork out the big bucks for Adobe, and it was that way for DTP software... Now, it seems to me as if the Macintosh world is awash with great applications that work great and won't cost you your first born. The world is starting to wake up to the fact that writing apps for the Mac is rewarding and worth it, and if Google doesn't care to find this out for themselves, then that's their choice. Plus, it's M$ word. I've sworn off Office nine months ago, and haven't regretted it since. As has already been pointed out, there are better alternatives for blogging and for M$ Word.

Have you used Picasa, Chad? Or Google Earth? Both are not simple apps. CK, I think you're looking at the issue incorrectly. People don't write software for OSes. They write software for other people. And most people use Windows. ESPECIALLY the class of people who use Google apps (ie: not specifically nerds, but Everyman). IT is very expensive. Google is trying to get the biggest bang from their IT buck, like every other company. Porting their software to OSX gives them a 10% larger customer base for a much higher amount of effort. Instead spending that effort on writing more Windows software might increase their customer base more than writing an OSX version of an existing app. Google isn't stupid. Their project planners have determined the most beneficial software for THEM to write, and they're writing it. It's nothing personal against the Mac or Linux; if the money was there they'd surely jump on it. They just want to rule the world like every other software company, and with their IT budget, that doesn't include the Mac at this point. That said, I'd love to have Picasa for the Mac. But I highly doubt Google is going to write an app that basically duplicates iPhoto in a market where the company that writes iPhoto has an almost fanatical following. Even if Picasa is a better app, it's not better ENOUGH.

I think you should think of it this way: Remember when Microsoft was going to make Microsoft websites IE only? What if one day Google/Blogger is Windows only? That is what this is about. Google is/should be nutural to OS, so why is a application that they make only for one OS? It's just annoying. Like Tivo2go annoying. I can see it getting more annoying if Google's wi-fi network is Windows 2000/XP compatiable.

Realistically, how hard it is to program any of google's apps. I think they could all be don e by some kid in their basement. The google gmail notifier is a good example. How many widgets are there for this?

I may be offtrack here, but this is how I see it --> iPod for mp3 player as to Windows for OS Now I'm not saying that Windows is as good as iPod, only in term of market share as both of them are the dominated players in their own field. So yeah, if we don't complain about how many accessories out there for our iPods (I do have a mini), why bother with one more app available for Windows ?!

I agree Google is a piece of crap when it comes to Mac compatibility, but it's not like this is anything new. Blogger works horribly with Macs, but the software is pretty much a joke anyway. Come on, Blogger doesn't even have arrows at the bottom of the pages to allow people to browse a blog easily.

Why the heck would you want to post to Blogger from slow, buggy Word anyway when you have options like Ecto? I know this is really about us Mac users being treated as third or maybe even fourth class citizens but you picked a pretty weak case to latch this unto.