Garmin Mac OSX Support?

Garmin tells me (in an email) that their software will support OSX "by
the end of 2006" but I can find nothing about it on the Garmin web site
(downloads, etc.)

Does anyone know if this is real or is it just vaporware?

timepixdc wrote:

I just got a n=FCvi 660 and the only CD-ROM that comes with it is for
the user manual. The instructions to install the it (wich is in PDF)
are for Windows and Mac.

I am sure you are expecting more, but that's a indication of the
direction Garmin is taking.

Just by using PDF you can tell that Garmin is not a Microsoft slave,
and their web site is based on Linux, which is appropriate for a
company that makes airplane grade equipment.

Not even Bill Gates will get into an airplane or emergency hospital
equipment based on Windows.

-Ramon

Huh?

Are you saying that their use of PDF to distribute their manuals is some
anomaly, that "Microsoft slaves" would never use PDF?


All PDF shows is that they're not utterly stupid.

One could go into that PDF and find out what application created the
original document.

Regardless, you seem to be saying that their use of PDF is proof that
there will be a Mac OS version of their software. You, sir, are a nut
case.

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:

What I wrote is not a mathematical proof, it is an indication, which
coupled with my other two observations (airplane grade reliability +
Linux web server) points in the direction of not being Microsoft
subservients. It is just a conjecture, an hypothesis, an educated
guess.

Besides PDF and Word, there are other ways to distribute manuals: web
based or Microsoft Help file are just two examples.

I have known companies which will wait for the so-called Acrobat killer
(Metro) which Microsoft is preparing, and they expect to replace PDF. I
wouldn't bet on it.

-Ramon

It's not even that. Virtually all "Microsoft slaves" that remain in the
world use PDF to distribute documentation. The use of PDF documentation
is no indication of ANY corporate preference toward what platform they
want to develop for.

What brand of crack are you on that you come to these conclusions?



Dude, they are servants to their shareholders--period. They make money
for their shareholders--period. Those are the only masters they serve.

"Airplane grade reliability" on some of their products (NOT ALL!) does
not have anything to do with what platform they choose or decline to
develop for on any given product.

Get your head out.



Out of wacko thin air.