"Even if it stuck at 4 percent, that's still a real viable market," he said of Apple's market share. Why? Because the Mac is still profitable. Wyckoff already has booked space for this summer's Macworld Expo in Boston - and next year's Macworld return to San Francisco.
But whether Apple lives or dies, AEC Software will keep making FastTrack Schedule for Macs, because even without Apple, customers would keep using the 25 million Macs that are out there. That's a long-familiar refrain among Mac users - but so is it among developers. "They've got such wonderful technology, and they've done such a horrible job of bringing it to market." "They've got the goose, but they keep dropping the golden egg," he said. "It's one of those things - if they'd just stop screwing up," said Wyckoff, who led a sales team demonstrating FastTrack Schedule, project management software targeted at corporate and government buyers, at a Macworld booth here last month. But at a time when the nation's fourth-largest computer maker is losing money and market share, laying off employees and shifting operating systems, it's tough to be optimistic. So personally and professionally, he wants Apple to succeed. Wyckoff himself started his personal computing on a Mac and confesses to be something of a Mac zealot.
of Sterling, is part of an intimate - tiny, some would say - community of Macintosh developers in the Washington area.ĪEC's major product, FastTrack Schedule, started on the Mac 10 years ago and was translated into Windows versions only four years ago. Wyckoff, vice president of AEC Software Inc. What's a nice Northern Virginia software developer like Kurt Wyckoff doing in a potentially depressing place like Macworld?Įverything he can to get Apple Computer Inc.