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With linux desktop use at ~1.5% and dropping, at some point it becomes bad business to support it. It's not adobe's job to pick OS's for their users, it's their
by criley2 6y ago
With linux desktop use at ~1.5% and dropping, at some point it becomes bad business to support it. It's not adobe's job to pick OS's for their users, it's their job to support the OS's that their users use. And their users are about 99% Windows/Mac it seems.
When you cover about 98-99% of your users platforms, I think you're cross platform.
Otherwise, we could define a cross-platform slippery slope such that no software has ever achieved it. There's always another platform you didn't support.
- StavrosK 6y agoThen "cross-platform" now means "Windows and MacOS" and Linux stops making the "platform" list?
- macintux 6y agoIn the commercial desktop software realm, that's what cross-platform has always meant.
- wtetzner 6y agoI always thought cross-platform meant "more than one platform", but I guess I don't really know if that's how it's typically used.
- Shared404 6y agoI almost exclusively use Linux, and I would call any Windows + Mac app cross-platform. Does it run on more than one platform? If yes, it's cross platform. Otherwise, where do you draw the line? Linux? BSD? Haiku? Minix?
- olyjohn 6y agoIf it doesn't run on BeOS, it's not cross platform!
- criley2 6y agoI mean, yes. Functional cross-platform doesn't mean "every single platform ever", and hitting 98% is a fantastic target. Listen, I love linux, and it's not MY fault that the year of the Linux Desktop never came and that its marketshare has continued to fall against its competitors.