So I’ve been a Mac user for about 60 days now, and I have to admit that the ride is pretty good. Unfortunately, it isn’t perfect. You see, I’m a consumer bankruptcy attorney. We’re a lonely group of people, wandering from place to place in search of desktop applications to help us draft our bankruptcy petitions. Sadly, the software publishers have forsaken us.
Now, that’s not to say that there isn’t case management software available for the Mac. For consumer bankruptcy attorneys there is an excellent platform-independent application known as MyThirdWave, marketed by yours truly. For those who prefer to be bound by their desktop in a closed environment, there’s Daylite – a program I have yet to try but which receives glowing reviews from many in the Mac universe.
What I’m talking about it honest-to-goodness petition preparation software. The big kids – BestCase, Bankruptcy 2007, Bankruptcy Pro, EZ-Filing and the rest – have all turned their faces away from the growing legion of Mac users and opted to produce Windows-only versions of their software. And though Windows retains the lion’s share of the market for these products, don’t they know that 8.8% of the notebook market is now taken up by machines with little glowing apples on them? And that number is growing by leaps and bounds?
Apparently not. So below are a number of links for you to use to tell the software vendors that you demand a Mac version of their product. Even if you don’t use a Mac (and I know many of you who do not), it doesn’t hurt to show solidarity with your colleagues and ask for your vendor to expand their product offerings. If enough of us join in, the noise will be too loud for them to ignore.
New Hope Software (Bankruptcy 2007)
Best Case
EZ Filing
LegalPRO Systems (Bankruptcy Pro)
Oh, and tell ‘em you were sent by Bankruptcy Practice Pro.
