Inspirational Technology

Changing Gears

Well sometimes it's funny how your mind can play tricks on you and force you in directions you may not otherwise want to go in. A few days ago I ordered a new Mac. Why did I do this, well simply I love Mac OS X. Everyday I love it more, and all I want to do is create cool things for this operating system. I bought the Mac because I wanted to have another machine for Mac OS X development.

So what does this mean, well it means I'm committing. For the last year or so I've been saying I wanted to start a company to develop OS X software. Well damn it, that's what I'm going to do. I have several solid ideas now and I'm going to start working on one of them. I know what it is, but I'm not saying yet :-).

So I pulled out of school today and I'm moving back to Phoenix near the end of April. I seriously considered making this move in January, but at the time I couldn't finger a solid product.

There is so much untapped potential in the OS X platform. Risky? Hell yeah it is, but I'm a pretty good observer of trends and the combination of Mac OS X and Linux is squeezing Microsoft in ways they've never seen before. The Microsoft monopoly is going to be broken and when it does, innovation will finally return to software. I'm going to take this bet and hope I'm there when it happens.