Online Casinos Trying to Capitalize on Mac Users

So far the online casino industry is catering solely to people that own PCs. But if one looks at the figures of Mac owners compared to PC owners, it will be realized that there is a large market that the online gambling community could catch and get to play at their establishment. Over the past year Isle of Man-licensed online casino PokerStars.com has been beta testing its own downloadable Mac friendly software. The large online casino has just announced the testing is complete and the full download is now available. Of coarse the announcement just happens to coincide with the opening of the sites World Championship of Online Poker.

It was decided to work with the Mac operating systems and build a solid system from the ground up, rather than rushing the process and offering a sub-par system. The downloadable software was designed with the Mac operating system and users in mind, instead of forcing a PC application onto a Mac. The software has been designed to be compatible with both Mac OS 0.4.10 and later versions. Mac has been becoming more and more programmer friendly for the gaming industry, and the online casinos are the next gaming niche to take notice.

'This is a great addition for both PokerStars.com and the poker playing audience,” said Australian Joe Hachem, 2005 World Series of Poker champion and a member of Team PokerStars.

“This will allow Mac users to experience the world's largest online poker site without third-party applications. I know a lot of the actors and musicians I coach via PokerStars.com will appreciate its release as the creative community use Macs before any other computer.'

There are a number of other online casinos that are inline to be releasing Mac friendly software in the near future. PartyGaming.com is currently running Beta tests with their software, while ParadisePoker.com, AbsolutePoker.com and SunPoker.com offer Mac-compatible web-based versions of their software. Mac users are growing large in numbers and it will be interesting to see which company comes out first and harnesses the capital power of Mac.