Forum Discussion
Does Articulate have any plans to make a Mac OS compatible version of Storyline?
I completely agree with Matthew and the hordes of other Mac users using Articulate. I'm also a longtime Articulate Mac user, although never a community 'hero'. I'm very supportive and love the product. I have also clamored for a Mac version in many community posts. I remember Articulate saying they were working on a Mac version a few years ago, and then Poof! All conversation stopped.
I'm tired of the same, lame rhetoric from Articulate since that moment, that 'there aren't enough Mac users to justify' creating a Mac version. What a ludicrous reason. We buy licenses every year! If you have ANY Mac users, you should be scrambling to keep them happy, as you do the rest of your customer population. Period. Excuse my grumbling, but I've been waiting patiently with no results from Articulate.
Is Articulate incapable of spending money on R&D to make Mac versions a reality? Adobe has found a way to release a Mac version of Captivate for years, as have other L&D tools. Articulate, by contrast, just keeps letting us know they don't care about us. No Mac version, end of story.
Until now hopefully, with the M1 release, which I bought. As Matthew mentioned, the pre-M1 Macs will eventually die out, so we have to have a Mac version if they want to keep us. Right now, they're the only game in town. I am not-so-patiently waiting for that to change.
Parallels is working on an M1-friendly version of their product (release date TBD - sigh). Other than that, there is no bright spot in this M1 scenario. Like many of you, I'm tired of being treated like a second class citizen by Articulate. Will they ever listen to us? Or are we really that irrelevant to them?