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I publish a magazine, and we've been wishing for essentially this exact tool for years and years. As soon as I looked at the demo images on the site, I called t

I publish a magazine, and we've been wishing for essentially this exact tool for years and years. As soon as I looked at the demo images on the site, I called two of our editors over excitedly and showed it to them. They both literally shouted with joy. Then we saw that it was Windows-only. The publishing industry runs on Macs. Please, develop for OS X. I can't think of a single person in publishing who wouldn't happily pay for this right now.

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booruguru 13y ago
I agree. Windows only? Are you insane? Mac OS may only have a minority of the consumer desktop market, but it dominates publishing and graphic design. For the life of me, I don't understand why developers go out of their way to ignore a platform that is used by professionals who actually PAY for software.
- bluemetal 13y ago
  Would the number of professionals which only use a Mac really be at all significant compared to the number of workers in almost every business and field which use MS Office running on Windows machines?
  - jaysonelliot 13y ago
    There are already dozens of tools for Windows that do side-by-side diff comparisons, not to mention the fact that Word itself has a side-by-side comparison tool in Windows, but not Mac. The reason this tool is worth $99/year to someone like me is that I need it for publishing, not coding or simple business document comparison. It's a nice thing to have if you're an office worker, but not vital, and probably not something you'll be able to get your boss to pay for. In the publishing world, on the other hand, it's a critical function that would save untold hours of paid editors' time. For anything other than publishing, there are "good enough" tools already out there. It's very surprising to me that it wasn't developed as a Mac solution first.

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I publish a magazine, and we've been wishing for essentially this exact tool for years and years. As soon as I looked at the demo images on the site, I called t

by jaysonelliot 13y ago

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booruguru 13y ago
I agree. Windows only? Are you insane? Mac OS may only have a minority of the consumer desktop market, but it dominates publishing and graphic design. For the life of me, I don't understand why developers go out of their way to ignore a platform that is used by professionals who actually PAY for software.
- bluemetal 13y ago
  Would the number of professionals which only use a Mac really be at all significant compared to the number of workers in almost every business and field which use MS Office running on Windows machines?
  - jaysonelliot 13y ago
    There are already dozens of tools for Windows that do side-by-side diff comparisons, not to mention the fact that Word itself has a side-by-side comparison tool in Windows, but not Mac. The reason this tool is worth $99/year to someone like me is that I need it for publishing, not coding or simple business document comparison. It's a nice thing to have if you're an office worker, but not vital, and probably not something you'll be able to get your boss to pay for. In the publishing world, on the other hand, it's a critical function that would save untold hours of paid editors' time. For anything other than publishing, there are "good enough" tools already out there. It's very surprising to me that it wasn't developed as a Mac solution first.