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Does Articulate have any plans to make a Mac OS compatible version of Storyline?
Or any other products?
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I always get a kick out of comments like this "The vast majority of our customers use Windows and web-based authoring tools that don’t depend on a particular operating system." Such a corporate response. Hey Articulate, how can you possibly have any Mac users at all, if you don't offer a Mac version? A large percentage of creatives, developers, and educators use Macs. If you don't know that (which you do), you need to look at the numbers. For some reason, you are hostile to Macs. Either that, or you can't seem to hire the right people. Either way, please don't try using pretzel logic with us, your customers. It's insulting.
It would ne also helpful to have Storyline working natively on a Mac.
Yeh, it has been 9 years now waiting to hear from Articulate Creator that we are creating a Mac-supporting version. 🙁
Another vote to port Storyline to Mac OS.
Adding another vote to make Storyline compatible with Mac OS. PLEASE! :)
Why waste your money on overpriced Machines and limited software on a Mac just so Apple can finish building their flying saucer to Mars in Cupertino? Try Bob for NT.
Funny some people still think that
Sometimes I remote into my PC from my Mac using Microsoft Remote Desktop...
I tried Parallels on my MacBook Pro and the experience was not good. It was slow and Storyline was slow when I used it. Additionally, my workplace was having to pay for two pieces of software. I found it was more cost effective in the log run to buy a Windows machine to run Storyline. I don't like Windows OS, but I can tolerate it while I use Storyline. I think Articulate would have more designers use the product if they developed a native Mac OS version.
Was your MacBook a current model with M1 or M2 ARM processor? When I tried
running it on my recent M1 Macbook it was very buggy and slow. I am now
running it on my old 2018 Macbook Pro (that was wiped and has a fresh
install of MacOS Ventura) and Storyline 360 actually runs quite smoothly on
Parallels (when Parallels is not having issues).I'll be curious how long Articulate will be able to keep telling people
that Storyline can be run on Macs. In 5 more years, will they just tell
people to find a 7-year old Mac or older to run it on? To quote Wikipedia:
"The Intel-based MacBook Pro is a discontinued line of Macintosh notebook
computers sold by Apple Inc. from 2006 to 2021".Lon
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Jumping on the Captivate bandwagon!
I have thought about taking that route too. However, I have heard that the learning curve for Captive is very steep. Have you found that to be true?
Please create a Mac Native program. Using this on Parallel is difficult and if Im able to I opt out of using SL, because of the extra steps.
