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Not sure I see the relevance. Mac OS US installed base is about 46 million, Linux is about 5.8 million. (Based on browsing data for share of total installed b
by dev_tty01 8y ago
Not sure I see the relevance. Mac OS US installed base is about 46 million, Linux is about 5.8 million. (Based on browsing data for share of total installed base of about 350 million in the US.)
The actual numbers can be sliced and diced different ways of course, but by any accounting the Mac is small compared to Windows and Linux is much smaller than that. I just don't see the economic motivation for companies like Adobe, particularly when you add in the diversity of Linux versions that would have to be supported. Whether or not Adobe can generate working code on a platform is only a small part of the cost of releasing on that platform. Don't hold your breath...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/670172/united-states-installed-base-desktops-laptops-tablets/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/670172/united-states-ins...
- tracker1 8y agoI don't know for certain, but I'd venture to guess half of Adobe's users are on Macs, and that an ARM based architecture won't work well for creative works (heavy image manipulation, video editing and encoding). And that could lead to a lot of Mac creative types looking for somewhere to go. It could be an opportunity for Adobe, if they played their cards right.