I can't believe how some people react to me. As if you were sure you understood that I was insulting somebody, or that I break rules you think you understand, or that I'm a regular and frequent asshole who doesn't like you or care about your needs. Again, I have to point out that if I was going to insult you, you'd be so insulted that you wouldn't even be able to type.

Let me take this apart for you.

When I call somebody "f ' er", I'm having fun and being myself, which includes a lot of good-natured ribbing. Some loading-dock vocabulary is fun for me as I am usually amongst a bunch of suits.

Smith Micro would like to support the Mac people. I would not, unless it was worth it. In my opinion, it doesn't seem to be worth it. Making the software work the same across the platforms, even with so-called right-once-run-anywhere software SDKs, is a lot of work and a lot of money.

Nevertheless, I agreed to build this UI for both PC and Mac. It has turned out that the common API for GUI under Adobe Flash is unreliable across platforms. As a result, I have been tasked with trying endless new combinations to make it work on the Mac, ON MY NICKLE.

My reaction and comment was partly because in some past postings, I've seen whining and complaining about SM's commitment to customers, and commitment to the Mac. Let me make this clear to you. SM is bending over backwards to make this work right on a Mac, and as a result, despite what I would do, it will work on a Mac. You can thank them, not me, because I'd have cut the Mac loose already. There aren't enough of you buying this to justify the effort and expense I've put into it. You Mac users should put together a formal letter of thanks and send it to SM.

As to nobody forcing me to test on a Mac, that's incorrect. SM is "forcing" me to make this work on a Mac because I agreed to. But I cannot test for the Mac because I do not have a Mac or any access to one. So I submit new software and the testers test it. I dont' test it, because I can't. I'd need 30 computers to do the various test cases I'm dealing with. I understand that isn't "forced" in that I made an agreement that wasn't coerced. I did so under the assumption that I'd be using Adobe software that is guaranteed to work the same on all platforms. That assumption has proved incorrect, and now it's costing me, personally, literally thousands of dollars.

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)