Why are all app screenshots taken on Mac/Safari?

Posted by yashg on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @09:42AM
from the self-post dept.

Why all web app screenshots are depicted as if they they are taken on a Mac? I sell a desktop software aimed at photographers and Mac sales are not even 10% of Windows sales! People who pay for software seem to be using Windows but since it is considered cool to develop on Mac, developers put up screenshots of Mac. Why nobody puts up a screenshot taken on a PC or that shows some other browser like Firefox or Chrome or even IE?

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Re:Why are all app screenshots taken on Mac/Safari? by jgeorge on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @01:48PM (#6361626)

Darned easy to screenshot in OS X, one keystroke, a click (or a rectangle defining drag) and file on the Desktop or the clipboard. I know it's not particularly HARD in other OSes, but stupid easy on a Mac.

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Re:Why are all app screenshots taken on Mac/Safari? by jaachan on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @09:45AM (#6359949)

Single data point: A designer for a website I worked on made all the screenshots. That designer used a Mac.

In general, designers may be more into Macs, and thus use them for screenshots?

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Re:Why are all app screenshots taken on Mac/Safari? by angeNoble on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @10:07AM (#6360072)

I think the percentage of photographers using macs is > 10%.

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Re:Why are all app screenshots taken on Mac/Safari? by yashg on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @12:37PM (#6361156)

I am sure. But my watermark software has mostly Windows users.

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Re:Why are all app screenshots taken on Mac/Safari? by drill_sarge on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @09:47AM (#6359957)

because of the fancy background shadow the mac screenshot thing puts around the app window?

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