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Does Articulate have any plans to make a Mac OS compatible version of Storyline?
Or any other products?
This is an enlightening thread! I am new to the field of instructional design. I just tested Rise with the free trial and was going to test Storyline before buying a subscription only to discover that Storyline doesn't work on Macs . . . Articulate, add me to the long list of customers you've lost because there is no Mac version.
Hello, Still following this thread, and totally share the disappointment in Articulate’s narrow-minded business strategy for Storyline. But I think there is another piece to the puzzle
It would seem that Articulate is banking on Rise becoming the solution for mult-platform use. However their licensing structure poses a serious problem for many organizations who want to own their content and be able to update it in the future. There is still no way to archive your Rise course off-line, in such a way that you could return to it in the future, without maintaining an unbroken continuous license subscription for the whole time. For many nonprofit organizations this is a rather large hurdle at the $1000+ a year price point for the entire Articulate package.
And for freelance consultants like myself, the requirement of maintaining a continuous subscription makes it a really difficult sell to clients, even though the Rise product itself would be suitable for many if not most of their training situations. This subscription policy would appear to be driven purely by short term greed, rather than long-term wisdom and building up respect for their product.
