Recently 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.