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tumult.comOS X only, though. I noticed a lot of similar tools are specifically tailored for OS X. Is there a reason for it?
3 reasons, not ordered by importance:
1. This is gonna be unpopular, but: the target OS X users for this low/medium priced softwares are more willing to pay instead of pirating, than their counterparts on Windows.
I say that based on empirical assumptions, I have to say, but what I notice is a general cultural difference on this point.
2. A huge part of the web creatives community uses Macs, therefore it makes sense for these devs to focus on OS X
3. I don't know about Sketch, but for Tumult the reason can be found in their official "about" paragraph:
"Tumult Inc. was founded in 2010 by ex-Apple employees whose mission is to make the next generation of tools to produce beautiful web sites and apps. Tumult Inc. is funded by Y Combinator"
I guess #3 is the most important factor here but from my personal experience #2 is not really true. Maybe it is for US based web developers but its not a worldwide phenomenon. There is a large percentage using OS X but it's small compared to the combined Windows/Linux user base. I'm sitting in an office with 6 webdevs right now and only 1 of us uses OS X. It not because OS X lacks something but its mostly because Apple product availability, pricing and familiarity is not the same everywhere.
About #1, totally agree there is more piracy on Windows than OS X but I am not sure it makes a difference in the number of sales. i.e. a lot of people will pirate it but isn't that the ones that would have not paid for it in the first place?
There are several countries, like Brazil for example, that a Mac can cost more than a house. So I guess we don't have a "culture" of buying software because we can't afford a overpriced system.
basically a lot of developers who are using OS X automatically believe the whole world does too. I have the same issue with Sketch being OS X only.
I find it quite normal for a small shop (I don't know the size of Tumult) to try to limit the number of platforms they wish to support. If they use Mac tools for development they will most probably me more efficient supporting the Mac.
Also, single platform toolkits are just so much nicer to use compared to those working on multiple platforms.
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