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Re:Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account wi... by raverbashing on Thursday June 18, 2020 @06:27AM (#23561723)
Try doing any of the following to professional level with a web app:

- sound editing/musical production

- video editing/special effects

- CAD/CAM/EDA

- Mechanical/physics/electrical simulations

- interfacing with custom hardware

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Re:Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account wi... by vetinari on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:52AM (#23562178)
> - video editing/special effects

Hollywood studios run on Linux (except Pixar, and granted, not with webapps), so it is possible. What's missing is the middle-ground, mass-market solution like Premiere/After Effects or FCP, though DaVinci Resolve is quite nice entry there.

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Re:Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account wi... by jacobwilliamroy on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:36PM (#23569364)
It looks like we edit on windows where I work, but we're actually using proxmox. Shhhhhhhh it's a secret.
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Re:Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account wi... by AsyncAwait on Thursday June 18, 2020 @06:38AM (#23561780)
At least for:

- interfacing with custom hardware

From experience, that's a lot easier on Linux.

As for CAD, video editing and music production - sure you do have a point, except that in those areas the likes of Autodesk and Adobe dominate anyway and the "pro" segment of macOS/Windows users is a tiny fraction of the overall userbase, so I'd be rather surprised if that's the kind of software you can sell in decent numbers to macOS/Windows users as an indie dev.

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