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How to Use Articulate Storyline on a Mac (with Videos!)
Here’s a question we get a lot: “Is there a Mac version of Articulate Storyline?” Lots of folks like to use Apple-built hardware such as iMacs, Macbook Airs, and Macbook Pros to create, desig...
Published 11 years ago
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This post has been going on for 7 years now with a lot of people begging for an OS version of Storyline. Using Parallels or VM Fusion or any other third party software to run your program is not a solution, it's a workaround. And it's a lazy response telling me that you really have no intention of developing a real solution for an operating system used by a huge portion of your target market. Please, please, please stop being lazy and just develop Storyline for Mac.
I suspect the issue is not laziness, but qualified programmers to develop it and maintain it and perhaps some other issues as well - like then people may not subscribe to the 360 online. It is truly a disappointment and I think in the long run a real income loss for Articulate as SL is still one of the best, if not the best, software of it's kind in the field.
- I disagree regarding the 360 guess. Why would that matter in a Mac universe any more than it does for PCs?
Everything I heard from Articulate pointed to a reluctance to program on the Mac side. Articulate was originally built from PowerPoint templates, and I think there is a certain terror on Articulate's staff over converting that to a Mac system. Not sure why; Microsoft was able to adapt Office pretty easily into a Mac solution.
Articulate knows very well by now that there is a huge Mac population ready for a version for us, one that doesn't require another $1000 in software to adapt it to a Mac. They're betting we're stuck with it, and they're right for now. There WILL be a Mac-based solution someday soon that rivals or hopefully exceeds 360, and that's when Articulate will regret not catering to us.
