Are you seriously this stupid? It was an example, one I know about because I'm beta-tester for Synapse. Clearly very few people would switch platforms because of one small developer but if every developer said "screw this, we're sticking to one platform and that's it", and they all chose the same one, it would force people's hands. We'd all be better off because devs could spend all their time making their products better, not chasing down weird bugs on one of several supported platforms.masterhiggins wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 4:39 amA large chunk of most cross-platform plugin customers are Mac users (I remember Cytomic saying that it was about 1/2). If synapse dropped support for Mac, they simply wouldn’t use them. Or do you think they’d switch their entire setups to Windows because of a plugin? Sure they’d have more time to focus on Windows but they’d also lose a big portion of customers.
You're making a pretty big assumption about what motivates people. There are many, many things about our computers that we all definitely give a f**k about. For me there are things like price/performance ratio, support for all the software I want to use and lots of USB ports. I also appreciate being able to choose from dozens of different vendors, each with something unique to offer, rather than being forced to buy from just one who shows little regard for the needs of its customers.
But that will never happen so it just doesn't matter. That said, Linux is a PITA most of the time. It's OK if you have a very standard set-up but if you have anything remotely exotic or uncommon, forget it.