Why is UX popular for VS competitors?
I'm not technical on the development of these applications so bear with me but:
Why do programs like zed.dev and trae initially develop for UX rather than windows?
If I remember correctly Cursor was also like this but I know they have a Windows version now.
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Do you mean OSX a.k.a MacOS? Or Unix? I am not familiar with UX shortcut in this context other than User Experience.
Assuming you do mean OSX, here is my theory:
- Apple hardware are very popular over in the US, especially with developers (battery life and performance is quite important in this area)
- Windows covers pretty much any hardware, Mac OS only Apple hardware. It makes it much easier for consistent development as testing is more reliable
- Apparently Apple users are easier to convince to pay (I'd treat it more as a rumor/myth than a fact as I do not have a hard data on this)
Just to clarify I do not use Macbook, nor I am willing to buy one, but I recognize the benefits that come from developing for small and powerful subset of machines.
I did mean OSX, not UX. Thank you for the reply
I cannot speak to MacOS, but I did a bunch of mobile work, 60-70% of all payers on the free to play mobile app were iOS, android was the remaining. On mobile it is VERY real