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by ancarda 3436 days ago
Perhaps they thought the screenshots made it clear enough; like this one: https://www.obdev.at/Images//littlesnitch/index/alert_on_scr... shows Little Snitch blocking iTunes (with an Aqua-styled UI).

Although I'll admit it doesn't mention what OS or what version except a small line on the downloads page:

    Runs on OS X Yosemite (10.10) and later, including macOS Sierra (10.12).
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bisby 3435 days ago
A screenshot demonstrates a place where it CAN run (and potentially where the devs run it), but doesn't EXCLUDE anything.

You see screenshots of windows programs all the time with just a sidenote somewhere that is like "oh yeah, and for linux and mac too"

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hmage 3435 days ago
Not to be biased, but personal 9 years of experience tell me that if a program has a landing page "oh yeah, and for linux and mac too", it looks shit on mac.
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justin_oaks 3435 days ago
Plenty of apps look like shit but run just fine.

Perhaps others don't share this view but I don't care so much how it looks if it gets the job done, especially if there is no other alternative.

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bisby 3435 days ago
That was an exaggeration, but many times programs that look identical (aside from window frames) across platforms don't show the window frames for every platform. Electron apps (for as unpopular as they may be) are pretty platform agnostic. If they show it on windows and just have a linux/mac download button its not a big deal.

skype.com probably fits the bill of looks shit, but it shows android and windows 10 screenshots only.

obsproject.com shows a lot of screenshots that look pretty windows 10-ish... but it also announces "Latest Releases <platform logos>" right at the top of the page.

sublimetext.com shows windows only screenshots. And then mentions platforms at the bottom of the page.

https://slack.com/is shows only mac screenshots. I imagine this reflects more on the developers than the actual product. Im pretty sure its available on other platforms.

And my point was less about quality of programs, but availability. showing the window frame of a single OS does not mean that only that OS is available, sometimes that's just the only OS the marketing team uses.

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prodigal_erik 3435 days ago
If I'm not a Mac user, I won't recognize a window manager that's only available on MacOS. And isn't there a (crappy) iTunes port for Windows?
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zymhan 3435 days ago
Well, iTunes is made by Apple.

It also doesn't require the kernel-level integration of Little Snitch.

Firewalls are way more about the backend than the frontend. They are not very portable at all.

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