Re:Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account wi...
by AsyncAwait on Thursday June 18, 2020 @06:38AM
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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.
- 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.