Jul 14, 2008
Why alienate Mac users? They’re clearly willing to spend lots of money on enjoyable products.
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IKEA doesn’t offer their kitchen planning software for Macs.
If I were them, I’d put that on my short list of to-dos.
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Perhaps IKEA feels that people willing to spend lots of money on enjoyable products wouldn’t be shopping at IKEA.
Just this weekend, I assembled some furniture from IKEA. One of the tables had pre-drilled pilot holes for two out of four legs. Another table didn’t have any pilot holes, but came with a simple wrench for tightening bolts. I wondered if IKEA assumed their shoppers all have drills but not wrenches.
Or perhaps this is all a sinister socialist plot trying to force us to go ask our neighbors if we can borrow something, such as a drill or a PC. Wouldn’t the Swedes love it if none of us had everything we needed to buy or assemble our furniture and we had to resort to reaching out to our community.
I thought of borrowing a computer, Bruce, but none of the people I’d ask have PCs.
Rough life, huh?
Do people actually own PCs? I thought they were extinct.
You aren’t the first person to ask for this… this site offers a solution:
http://www.ikeafans.com/forums/kitchen-planning/5524-mac-users-kitchen-planner.html
I wish Logos would make it a #1 priority, too.
I have thought this same thing frequently about other things: homeschooling software for example. I bought a record keeping/grade tracker software in April. “They” said I could have an emulator put in my Mac and the software would run. “They” didn’t know I’ve had my Mac since January 2005 and it still runs perfectly. But iBooks purchased at that time are not compatible with the emulator thing (whatever that is).
We have Macs, but we’re not rich. We won’t upgrade until we HAVE to. And with as great as our Macs have run, we may never have to! This, of course, is a good problem.
Bad for new software that needs the emulator, though.
Did I just make up for your 22 words by typing 2,200? :)
They don’t offer it for Ubuntu either. Intolerable. At least they mention that Macs aren’t supported :-)…
Nathan:
Logos went Mac.
http://www.goingtoseminary.com/logos-finally-goes-mac-seminary-students-rejoice/
Amen to that…I guess it’s on to Boot Camp for the IKEA software *sigh*
If I were Ikea I would assume that Mac users are so rich and self important they would never actually stoop to plan their own kitchen.
I run Logos (to go off the subject) on my Macbook Pro via VMWare Fusion, works great, runs fast.
That is odd. I would have guessed the Swedes would be all about the mac. Coming from a PC guy (mainly forced into it because of work), “design” and “PC” never have fit well together.
You can design your kitchen there at IKEA. (Although it takes hours, so it’s not easy.)
But the real reason they are not Mac friendly is because their entire computer system world-wide is terribly antiquated, light years behind. It’s such a huge monster to try to bring up to speed.
You can borrow my Toshiba anytime you are in Kenya.
Oh, I just remembered, Jonathan has my old computer and it has the IKEA kitchen planning software on it. You can ask him. Not sure where he is living this summer…