They were probably talking about industry standard packages like Lotus 123, Wordperfect, Photoshop, Microsoft Office blah blah.
The problem is quite complex, but Apple is a total failure in the Desktop marketshare and so is Linux. You only really have one choice and that's x86 hardware running a Microsoft OS if you want games/creativity/productivity/multimedia/100% compatibility. I really hate that I just typed that but it's the truth...many websites only look right on IE and commercial games only exist for X86 PCs on MS operating Systems.
There isn't much you can do on a brand new Apple that you can't do on a PPC OS/4 machine really and that's why IMO Apple has failed.
The Amiga A1000 was so advanced and ahead of it's time as a complete package when it hit the streets Commodore really had no idea what to do with it (multimedia before it was even invented). Also PC using companies would never retrain staff for software or engineers for support in the millions needed to ever secure the Amiga a place here forever. So if the home computer from the future couldn't topple the IBM PC ethos what could, a crap dinosaur of a machine with slow painful evolution of hardware and software picking up the pieces of a battered Amiga ravaged by cheap and technically superior games consoles.
The battle was lost a long time ago...about the time that the A500/A2000 was shipped with identical chipsets and CPU as the 85 A1000. I have no passion for computing anymore....I use a machine that is capable of running packages I need to run for my business. That's it, I have no attachment to any computer you can buy today now and that's the saddest thing for all of us who lived the 'exciting times'
