Accordance is, and will remain, the bomb
March 22nd, 2008 by Danny ZachariasRecently on the Accordance blog David Lang did a respectful and informed response of a blogger who commented on the alpha release of Logos. If you are a die-hard Mac (and therefore Accordance) user, you will smirk at the Cyberbrethren’s comments. It is typical of what a windows user who only occasionally uses Mac would say, but some of it is just laughable. He says Accordance has a clunky interface! This blogger is spitting out borderline blasphemy for us Accordance users. People poorly underestimate the dogged affection Accordance users have for Roy Brown and his team’s product. Rivaled only by the dogged affection for the Mac in general 
Here is my prediction for Logos Mac and its affects:
- Windows users with large logos libraries will now feel better about switching to the superior Mac platform - so Logos is helping the Mac cause.
- For some of the above people, once they sink in to life with Mac and wondered why they waited so long to switch, will try Accordance and like it way better and will start using both—especially if their Logos library isn’t very large.
- Current Accordance users will never leave, but they may well purchase Logos as well for some of the resources that Accordance doesn’t have and may never get (syntactical databases, opentext.org, etc)
All in all, I’m not worried about the demise of Accordance in the least. Logos can bring on the competition, and Accordance will bring on the pain.
March 22nd, 2008 at 8:05 am
Sounds like a good assessment, Danny. I don’t think that Accordance will go anywhere, just like BibleWorks hasn’t gone anywhere. While Logos has made a strong and solid entry into the world of biblical scholarship with its developments and new electronic publications in the past couple years, I think the scholarly community still feels a little hesitant about Logos being a kind of fundie, Bible-thumping sort of software. And, let’s be honest, they sure do have some of that stuff on Logos–and keep coming out with more, while they also come out with amazing scholarly resources like Hermeneia.
Your first predication hit the nail on the head for me. When my current laptop goes kaput in a couple years, I will seriously consider a Mac now that Logos is available for it.
Though I haven’t used it, I’ve seen Accordance used several times and I think that it’s better than BibleWorks. For what it does, I think it’s better than Logos mainly because it’s faster at it. But personally, I’d rather build my electronic library and have it all interlinked in one place. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to afford a second Bible software package while I keep added resources to my Libronix library. So, I’m not sure your second prediction would apply to me. I guess we’ll see!
March 24th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Nice post. One slight clarification, which may just be my reading.
…some of the resources that Accordance doesn’t have and may never get (syntactical databases, opentext.org, etc)
It’s not that Accordance may never get syntactical databases in general, but the specific ones already licensed by them, i.e., opentext.org.
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
I just recently purchased a macbook after using Accordance emulated on my PC along with my Logos software. I have found that both platforms work great when using Fusion so now I have the best of both worlds. Logos has produced some excellent syntactical tools which Accordance does not possess; thus I continue to use Logos for those purposes while continuing to use Accordance as my primary Bible software. I do not see the need for Logos to even produce a Mac version now that the Windows platform can be used alongside OS X with the intel processors
May 9th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Dick,
I am very happy to hear about that Fusion works with Logos. Could you tell me a little more about this? danzac—at—gmail.com. Have you noticed any bugs? shorcomings? slowness in performance?
I only very rarely need the whole windows OS running, so I’d rather use Fusion than booting the whole OS in Parallels.