That's the purpose of my startup :); we've been making an HTML5 animation tool for OS X for the last two years:
While Google hasn't announced pricing, it is probably safe to say it is going to be free. This is a business for us, so we charge $29.99. I don't like competing against free, but that just means we'll be continually pushed to provide that much more value!
Google's free offering is cross platform already.
And, I guess, most of the marketers, too.
I'm guessing most (all?) the developers you know work in the US?
Mac OS is close to nonexistent in that area in the rest of the world.
Trying to sell an app competing against a free product from Google is already challenging enough, you should seriously consider the original advice and extend your tool to work on Windows as well.
> Mac OS is close to nonexistent in that area in the rest
> of the world.
I'm fortunate to be working for a consultancy company that just gives everyone a budget to buy their computer. Most people have a Macbook, with the odd exception that simply has a hatred for Apple or can't get used to it.
I would argue that development tools are much better for OSX. It's like Linux, but usable. A lot of commandline tools just work out of the box under OSX, where you have to go through hoops, hope there's a port, or install a bash emulator under Windows.
Of course, .NET developers will be using Windows.
And this is a two year old observation.
That's what we call a filter bubble
The Microsoft world might also be used by large corporations, who also happen to have lots of money, with which you can buy things like software.
(There's also these other platforms based on *nix, but meh :-p)
|pushes button to delete nix|
Hey, where did 60% of my favorite website go? Oh, I'll just google how to undelete *nix... wait... crap!
You're actually discounting the entire world outside of SV right now?
That is an amazing thing to write on the internet.
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNS66CcUJ1o
SIDENOTE: If Adobe made linux-versions of all their stuff, combined with the already-existing linux versions of Maya and 3DSMax, I believe it would be very good for the digital-art industry.
People will use the enviroment where the tools run stable.
No sir!
</sarcasm>
You really need to get some perspective about just how big the IT industry is outside of America.
1) Big corporations don't like to overspend on PC hardware and can have great deals with anyone but Apple.
2) A company that work mostly on Windows platform (.Net, MSSql)
4) As weird as it sound some people might actually not like OSX.
On the other hand, I REALLY like the idea of an app and all its dependencies being installed all in one folder. That REALLY needs to happen everywhere. This would make migration between installs SO much easier, and would eliminate DLL hell (or shared library hell in the case of linux).
Just my 2cents
I also dont like the dock, i like to have a taskbar with the open windows on each of my monitors which is no problem in Windows and Linux. I dont like the Menubar stuck on the main monitor.
As a web developer i really like the unix base of OSX for different reaons though and i need to use some software for game dev (Unity3D) which isnt available on Linux.
But i thought about running Windows for game dev/office stuff and Linux in a VM for web development.
Oh yes. I wouldn't take a job if they offer Apple only choices.
Most of the people i know just use Windows (Belgium)
I remember being a very little kid and buying shareware games with their "PC-Compatible" labels. At the time, that sticker actually meant "DOS Compatible", and being I just about 10 years old, I believed PCs and DOS were the only possible match, the same way my first MSX ran MSX-Basic and my cousin's Amstrad CPC ran CP/M. I didn't know it was even possible for machines to run different OSes. For that matter, I didn't even know what an OS was. I just knew different machines worked differently, the same way different TV sets worked differently.
So it's not just a matter of human language, it's a matter of intentionally confusing terms in favour of the market. Everybody knew there were other "walkmans" around. Not everybody knows there are other OSes.
Besides, that gives them a single competitor to fight against.
Prescriptivists.
In tech, things should be called by their name, or you risk future confusion.
Yes, you'd drastically expand your potential client base – but end up with worse revenue and higher support costs per customer.
(I'm on a Mac, still I have Windows machines and know a huge amount of web-developers who abide by Windows)
We've moved nearly all of our other videos to youtube, so if it really is our server you can click the "watch more" buttons on the main page to still get a feel for the app.