Supporting standards such as OpenGL, making good use of their own QuickTime, and building in powerful graphics cards into their systems motivates us to offer the best features of games like Half-Life to the Mac customer. As the title suggested, this is another of our ongoing series discussing signs that the Mac is back. Well of course that is not the case, especially now with machines like the iMac blazing consumer territory untrod by Apple in many years. But this goes even deeper. Games are important to the Mac market because it is what drives the vast majority of kid computer desires.
Kids drive parents choices, especially with parents that have never owned a computer before.
Many parents assume correctly that their kids know more about computers than they do. They often turn to their kids to make the choice of which computer to buy, certainly at least whether to get a Windows box or a Mac. We say rightly because very few games were coming to the Mac. For much of the last year, that trend has been reversing as more Mac developers began announcing renewed Mac support. Now, we have Apple officially announcing three developers coming back or entering the Mac market and doing more than making Mac games, making them simultaneous releases with the PC version.