There might be some bias in there.
" see many more successful commercial desktop apps for MacOS than for Windows or Linux combined"
Office profits by itself would crush all MacOS application sales.
Maybe it is easier for the single developer to create something profitable on MacOS but that's because the bigger players have marketshare over windows in the profitable niches.
Re:Firefox Replay
by scarface74 on Thursday November 28, 2019 @09:56AM
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Office has always been available for the Mac. How many indy developers and small shops outside of games really have been successful making software?
Re:Firefox Replay
by michaelmrose on Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:39PM
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You can trivially pick out the macs visually how are you picking out who is running Linux?
That people wouldn't buy into Apple stuff is a big assumption, because we did do just that, for better or worse. Speaking of which, I see many more successful commercial desktop apps for MacOS than for Windows or Linux combined, even if Windows still has a much bigger market share. And this happened since before Apple's App Store for MacOS became a thing.
I was also one of Facebook's early adopters, many of my programmer friends were too. Being from Romania, let me tell you, the early adopters here were all software developers ;-)