Actually Macs are very important for the indie market. They buy stuff. Most Windows users don't care about Indie games because they have their AAA game titles and whatnot. Mac users have a few titles like Doom 3, Quake 4 and of course the Blizzard games. And that's about it.
There is actually a cause that Mark made BlitzMax cross-plattform compatible. If you know it better: go ahead and create a Vista-only DX10 killer-gamedev programming language and stop ranting about users you obviously don't know (because what you wrote about the Mac users is just plain wrong). It is true that most Linux users want as most SW as possible to be free (free as in free beer, not free speech although most Linux users will tell you it's the other way round but one of the most called argument when trying to convert you is: "and it's all free, man!") but there are many Mac users interested in playing games. To be honest: I'd rather release a game for Mac only than for Windows only. The profit would still be higher.
There is actually a cause that Mark made BlitzMax cross-plattform compatible. If you know it better: go ahead and create a Vista-only DX10 killer-gamedev programming language and stop ranting about users you obviously don't know (because what you wrote about the Mac users is just plain wrong). It is true that most Linux users want as most SW as possible to be free (free as in free beer, not free speech although most Linux users will tell you it's the other way round but one of the most called argument when trying to convert you is: "and it's all free, man!") but there are many Mac users interested in playing games. To be honest: I'd rather release a game for Mac only than for Windows only. The profit would still be higher.