[jpileborg]

Just my two cents (as a life-long software developer), but for most companies that support both Windows and macOS the hardest part is already done: Making the architecture portable between vastly different systems.

If it has been done once, it’s usually much much easier to add support for a third system.

So why don’t companies do that? The developers wouldn’t mind (and may actually love it). The testers have to add another virtual system but the tests themselves shouldn’t change. It’s really a business decisions. All the talk about “market share” is just business-speak for “can’t be arsed to bother”, as they can’t see beyond the next quarter. They only see the short-term costs, not the long-term revenue.

• This post was modified 3 months ago by jpileborg.
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