Yes! Finally here is Skype for Mac with video! A known issue is that it eats up your processor. Glad I have a spare one ;). The user interface is greatly improved too. Great job.
I switched to Mac a couple of months ago. I'm totally happy with it. Browsing through all the available little cheap apps is like walking through a candy store. I bought more software for the Mac last month than the whole last two years combined for Windows. I've got a slick, fast machine (MacBook Pro 2.0), OSX is stable and pretty, and just in general it feels 'right' to have switched to Mac for development and bookwriting.
There is only one major annoyance: some software isn't available for OSX.
Some of that stuff I can live with. Like Picasa 2 - which is 10 times better than iPhoto - and Skype 2. I hope those products will come out for OSX soon, but until then, I'll use something else.
Others, like Enterprise Architect, are more annoying. If you target the development crowd, I think it is just plain stupid to only support Windows. I posted on one of their forums (started by other people that also were asking for OSX support) and got the unsurpising reply that they thought the market was too small. Imagine that: they make an UML tool - and a good one - which doesn't run on Linux* and OSX! I seriously wonder if the marketing people over there did their homework and have any idea how many developers they are shutting out from their market potential. Btw, I put a * at Linux as they kind of support it, but they want you to install a 'windows compatability layer' - available commercially only - and some other Windows bs first. Right… that looks like an attractive offer (not). Anyway, the licence that I bought last year is pretty useless now. It'll be the last time I bought something without first making sure it runs on more than Windows.
My major annoyance is my Sony MP3 player though. Last year I bought their MD-HD5 music player. It's a great player. It has a good sound, a decent user interface, and the battery life totally rocks (minimum of 30 hours in my experience). What's not so great about the MD-HD5 is that it must be used with software that runs on Windows only. WTF?! They must have spent millions on R&D, production and marketing, but those last couple of bucks to put some extra effort in making software that runs on OSX and Linux too was too much? And how are you supposed to deliver an 'iPod killer' without at least trying to penetrate the main competitor's base camp - the Mac? I am ready to buy an iPod now and ditch the MD-HD5. And Sony will be on my wallet's black list for the next couple of years.
Think of the incredible rise of Firefox. Many companies are finding out that it pays off to not tie their products into a specific browser. And really, if you make browser independence your goal from the start it's not that hard to achieve. I hope publishing software that does run on multiple platforms will be the normal practice soon. Even without using Java it's very doable to write software for multiple platforms nowadays, and if I look at the number of people (developers) that I know personally that use Linux or OSX, many of them being pretty vocal with their books, blogs and conference speaking schemes, I think we'll see something like we saw with Firefox. First people laugh it away, pointing at that 1% market share it has, only to find out that 2 years later they have a problem as Firefox suddenly accounts for 10-15 % market share, and customers start complaining they can't use their favorite browser on some sites.
