Mac Cleanse

Since the beginning of online poker Macs have been relatively ignored. At first it makes sense, the amount of PC users greatly outnumber Mac users. But after looking into it further, Mac users may have a much greater conversion ratio and there's other reasons to release Mac software as well.

There's hundreds of online poker rooms now, and less then 10 that offer Mac compatible poker software. They don’t develop Mac poker software because they feel it’s not worth it. Judging by statistics only about 5% of computer users own Macs. But realistically, this doesn’t mean the amount of Mac to PC users playing online poker would be 1/20th.

Many of the PC users are from businesses, corporations, and people who just use their computers for email and Microsoft word. Macs target the younger college age generations who are up to date with the latest technology. They’re using Macs for Music, video, graphics, and other creative activities. The younger generation also happens to be the market that windows users are targeting, and because of this the conversion ratio for Mac users would be much greater then PC users.

When developing software for PC’s you have to worry about plugging all possible leaks for viruses, worms, and other hacks. There are so many security issues for PC computers that it’s an endless process. You also have to hire extra customer support to deal with the problems users will have with PC poker software.

If you develop software correctly for Mac’s it should just work. Apple makes OS X and it’s the only operating system it will run on. Macs don’t get viruses or spy ware and they’re not prone to having any major security leaks. After developing the poker software it would be a lot cheaper to maintain.

There are a lot more reasons for poker sites to develop Mac poker rooms then not. The few rooms that have Mac poker software, like Full Tilt Poker and PokerRoom, have shown an increase in growth. For a poker room to Recognize and diversify them self to all of their possible customers will show that they’re a respectable company.

Mike runs PokeronaMac.com. poker on a mac is a resource for details about Mac compatible Poker rooms. It also features Poker strategy articles.