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There was a time in the late 90s/early 2000s where this happened to driver development on the (Classic) Mac. Companies would make some USB device and get a reasonable driver made for Windows (I assume - I wasn't using Windows at the time). Then they would say, "Well, MacOS is 10% the market of Windows, so we'll pay 1/10th for someone to develop a driver for this." But it turned out that USB worked completely differently on the Mac from how it did on Windows, so none of the Windows code was relevant at all for the Mac devs. They would either get what they paid for (which was terrible for users) or they would not get a Mac driver. This is around the time I stopped buying any device that required installing a driver. Many of these devices didn't really need one because they were regular USB-spec devices (keyboards, scanners, etc.) To this day, I will not install a driver for a fucking mouse. Why would that be required?