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Posted by Listerene
Sep 24, 2017 at 08:35 AM
Still irritates me that the OS with 85% of the market continues to get the short end of the stick in their development. A look at their changes reminds me that just about *every* text processing software has had these “improvements” for quite awhile.
Maybe all of that is why I no longer bother with Scrivener.
Posted by Paul Korm
Sep 24, 2017 at 11:34 AM
I’d suggest cutting them some slack. The blog says (repeatedly) they’ll do macOS first, then Windows. There’s only two developers according to their site—we’re not looking at corporate Adobe here. And if 85% of their users demanded Windows apps you can probably assume they’d flip their plans 180 degrees. Assuming they are rational, they go first where they know the money is.
Listerene wrote:
Still irritates me that the OS with 85% of the market continues to get
>the short end of the stick in their development. A look at their changes
>reminds me that just about *every* text processing software has had
>these “improvements” for quite awhile.
>
>Maybe all of that is why I no longer bother with Scrivener.
Posted by tightbeam
Sep 24, 2017 at 11:34 AM
I second that emotion.
Literature & Latte seems pretty solid, but whenever I read on this forum about a Mac-only developer going out of business, or being “forced” to rely on a subscription model to stay in business, the first reaction is: maybe you should have put out a Windows version of your product. At least there *is* a Windows version of Scrivener, though it does sleep in the cupboard beneath the stairs most of the time.
Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 24, 2017 at 11:35 AM
Larry Kollar wrote:
>I’ve built a pretty nice Scrivener workflow, based on MultiMarkdown
Sounds interesting. Would you mind sharing your workflow with us?
Posted by tightbeam
Sep 24, 2017 at 11:43 AM
I’d cut Listerene some slack as well. It can be extremely frustrating for Windows users to read about all the great Mac software they can’t use. I’m sure Literature & Latte does know where the money is, at least for their product, but it still goes against logic to ignore (or at least not give parity to) the far greater number of Windows users.