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For the record (from the author), 98% of my traffic is from Mac users, so I don't usually specify. I do, however, state in the second paragraph that it's very specific to ScreenFlow.

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Thanks. I was not intending to sound overly snarky. I think perhaps only people outside a circle notice the assumptions made by people within it.

For example, it's usually easy to identify material written by people in the USA - they're more likely to assume their readers are within the USA. People in South America, Europe, and Asia seem to assume their readers could be anywhere.

Similarly with tech, though I think we all assume everyone knows what we're talking about, no matter where they are. : )

I had no idea what ScreenFlow is, other than a camelcased bonding of two common words. Yes, you may say, I could have looked at that link, find that it takes me to iTunes, and then intuit we're talking OSX ... but a) I was on mobile so it wasn't a simple hover, b) as you note it's an en passant reference in the second paragraph.

EDIT: Oh, and c) the page title is 'Tips for Screencasting'

Fair enough :).

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