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A Windows client doesn't make sense when most (all?) Github employees are on Macs. Mac is higher priority than Windows.
by getsat 15y ago
A Windows client doesn't make sense when most (all?) Github employees are on Macs. Mac is higher priority than Windows.
- jbellis 15y agoI get that dogfooding is important, but github employees aren't the target market.
- catch23 15y agoGithub employees are the target market, they use Git don't they? What use is developing a windows app that none of the developers will use initially?
- eli 15y agoSure, but my point is that most of Github's potential customers are not on Macs.
- getsat 15y agoRight, but you build on the platform you like/know first, then you expand to others.
- catch23 15y agoMy point is that their UI could change, and it's easier to test out UX on something that you'll use everyday, than on something that you'll never use. They made Github because they wanted to use it themselves, not because they saw it as a money making scheme.
- nupark2 15y agoFor productivity apps (and especially developer tools), it's not worth chasing customers on a platform you don't love -- you'll do a bad job and you'll be unhappy doing it.
- 5teev 15y agoAnd as Mac users, they may be consciously avoiding the reverse of an all too familiar situation, where non-Mac-using Windows developers shoddily port their app to OSX.