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by tasn 1982 days ago
Many apps (e.g. EteSync and WireGuard) are almost useless if they don't work for everyone within a certain group. A more extreme example is a messaging app. Will not having iOS support for a messaging app lose you 40% of your users? No, it will lose you 100%.

In WireGuard's case it's maybe less obvious than messaging, but if WireGuard doesn't work on macOS, it's enough to have one Apple user in your whole organisation in order to make it a non-viable solution.
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literallycancer 1982 days ago
What organization is it, that can't order an employee to use a different OS on a work computer?
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bombcar 1982 days ago
When the employee is the CEO who wants to use his iPhone or an owner who wants to use her MacBook, the IT department bends.

And yes, the users are smart enough to see there’s an iOS client so you can’t just tell them “it’s not available”.

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fxtentacle 1982 days ago
We're talking about an open source project.

So if bigcorp wants OS X WireGuard support, they should be able to pay handsomely for it.

If they aren't willing to pay, then I believe the project should just avoid offering it, to avoid getting burnt out from unreasonable requests.

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notriddle 1982 days ago
> So if bigcorp wants OS X WireGuard support, they should be able to pay handsomely for it.

Who says they're not? A lot of the companies on https://www.wireguard.com/donations/ ship their own macOS software. Just because the Wireguard Mac app is free doesn't mean nobody's giving them money that's earmarked for Apple development.

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tasn 1982 days ago
Video editors, designers, and sound mixer are a few example professions where users mostly use Apple products. Most companies have designers.

Additionally, companies don't choose their whole software stack based on their VPN solution. They would just change a VPN solution if it's incompatible with what's there.

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fxtentacle 1982 days ago
That was 5 years ago.

By now, video editors and sound mixers are heavy windows users, because there's no halfway endurable Apple machine that you can purchase that supports 128GB of RAM and 8+ CPU cores and NVIDIA CUDA. Because like it or not, almost all video editing plugins use CUDA for acceleration.

https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/download/Pro-Tool...

The industry standard for movie mixing supports: macOS Catalina (10.15.7), macOS Mojave (10.14.6), and High Sierra (10.13.6).

In other words, they didn't even bother with Big Sur yet.

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JumpCrisscross 1982 days ago
> video editors and sound mixers are heavy windows users

Source? This is not reflected in any of the studios I know.

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