The purpose of this
document is to define the criteria behind the selection process
for each product, service, membership, streaming media, and all
download components from the
Purple Cow
ProductionZ
website network.
The primary issue is the
compatibility
of products for both PCs and Mac's, and is the topic of this Policy.
Issue #1: Mac vs. PC
Issue #2: Resale Rights
Issue #3: Mac Equivalency
And if you have any further questions or
issues, just submit a Ticket to the Purple Cow Help Desk (access
is below).
Issue #1: Mac vs. PC
This debate has raged on for decades now, with both sides being
equally adamant—and even vehement—in their claim of victory over
the other.
Resolution #1
This
document is absolutely not the arena within which to perpetuate
such a controversy, so an understanding of the pros and cons
involved shall be pursued instead.
Also, the Purple Cow
will not ever take sides because (a) there are valid reasons to
support either platform and (b) it just seems more realistic to
use the platform works best for you and gets you where you want
to be.
Of course, that could either mean the
platform you can actually operate sufficiently to achieve your
goals, or it could mean the one with all of the tools necessary
to achieve your goals even if it's more difficult to operate.
And you can see from those statements that
there can never be any clear winner to this debate because you
can spin any position in any
direction.
Issue #2: Resale
Rights
While there is almost always a Mac-compatible equivalent for any
of the components within any offering from the
Purple Cow,
that Mac-equivalent product typically cannot be included in any
such offer because
the Authors of Mac software products typically do not allow any
type of
Resale Rights
for their products to be transferred upon purchase.
But most PC software
developers—at least within the Internet Marketing community—pass
on some type of Resale Rights license
to purchasers of their products (for an additional cost, of
course) so the purchaser can turn right around and resell the
product.
It is that all-important
Resale Rights licensing agreement that grants the
Purple Cow the legal right to include those
products in its offerings.
Resolution #2
Since the vast majority of Mac software
developers refuse to operate that way, the only thing the
Purple Cow
could do would be to inform you about the availabilty of a Mac-compatible
equivalent and then offer a link to the salespage where that
product would have to be
purchased at full price from the specific Authors.
However,
that type of
help
is just not possible because it could, and it certainly would, be misrepresented as a legally-binding
recommendation from the
Purple Cow,
which our legal counsel will just not allow us to do.
It is your prerogative, of course, to seek
out such Mac-compatible products on your own and pay whatever
the price might be. But that will only work when there actually
is a compatible product.
Issue #3: Mac Equivalency
In many cases, though, there simply isn't a single Mac-equivalent product
available at any cost. They just don't exist. Period.
And a major reason for that situation is because
there just wasn't enough Mac-users—historically—interested in
any tightly-focused, specific types of applications. Therefore,
there was never enough of a potential market to lure software
developers into investing their resources.
The other major reason for limited development of Mac products
was that historically,
Apple was against any open-architecture access and did not want third-party developers
creating products, so they couldn't.
But there are so many PC users, that
almost any software product can find a market, so there was
always sufficient financial impetus for the software developers
to create an endless flow of products. And open architecture of
both the PC and the Windows operating system, there have always
been a great number of PC-based software developers.
Resolution #3
If there is simply no product for a Mac
that is the operational equivalent of a product offered by the
Purple Cow, there are three
ways around that problem.
Work-Around One:
Get a Windows emulator
for your Mac so you can run/operate all PC-based products.
Work-Around Two:
You could just use a friend's
PC because for the most part, PC-based products only need to
be run for a few minutes at a time, and only once in awhile.
As an example, to make a web audio
button takes only two minutes and lasts for as
long as you need it. So why not use a friend's machine?
Work-Around
Three: Now don't start yelling yet, but another solution
is just to buy a PC. After all, you only need a basic
system: no big monitor, no extra memory, no humongous hard
drive... just a basic, workable system. As a matter of fact,
you could even get a used
PC because out-dated doesn't mean that it's broken, just
that it doesn't have all the new gizmos.
And since
PC-based products can give you such an important,
immediate, and profitable advantage in all areas of
the business of your music
that you really must consider
how to make them work for you.
After all, The
Future You Deserve is at stake!
