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by robenkleene 897 days ago
PowerPoint, Photoshop, Excel, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere, Atom, and After Effects were all released first on the Mac. In fact the only applications I'd call landmarks that weren't initially released on the Mac are Word and VS Code, which weren't released first on the Mac for obvious reasons.
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Your argument is that products that start on Mac and later get acquired and ported by megacorps do better?

This is a text editor similar-ish to VS Code, though Code is made by MS so yeah. Sublime’s first release was on Windows.

Atom supported all three above at release.

Other landmark software not launched exclusively on Mac first; Steam, Google Chrome(though I guess based on WebKit, itself based on KDE-built KHTML, so I guess WebKit can be added to the list).

btw, I got a Quest 3 recently. I saw that you work in that area, so thanks for the awesome software. Quite enjoying it so far.