Versum opened this issue on Mar 07, 2025 ยท 37 posts
shvrdavid posted Sat, 15 March 2025 at 4:02 PM
Carkey posted at 3:11 PM Sat, 15 March 2025 - #4494287
Well correct me if I'm wrong but it appears to me that Bondware put the nail in the coffin on Poser for macOS because they've reached the limits of OpenGL deprecation that's capped at v4.1, so I find it suspicious that they'd kill distribution to their Mac base just because of Windows market share.
My guess is the sales have killed the Mac version, and that was probably the primary reason. Yes there are other things, like what the did to Programs that use Opengl, Microsoft stopping assembler support for cross platform (which could be a big one too), etc, etc... But I seriously doubt those are the primary reason for the decision..
At the end of the day Poser is a business, not a charity. And that red ink speaks loudly in any column.......
If Mac sales were 50% of all Poser sales, it would obviously be more than worth developing Poser for Mac... But that obviously isn't the case here.
I ran Poser on a first gen I7 for 15 years before upgrading the motherboard and processor. I did upgrade GPU's thou. So I spent about 2k in 15 years, then upgraded to 13th gen Intel and rtx 4000 series gpu. Every program I have still works, and it is still the same install of Windows done years ago....
No one on a Mac can say the same thing, no one... Mac hardware from years ago, is completely abandoned.... It affected Poser 11 and 12 that previously ran on those systems, in a very negative way as well.... Everyone with a Mac has spent far more than I have in 15+ years as well.
The current M Macs will be no different and the abandonment has already started due to a lack of sales, of software....
That is literally what drives the change. When it affects Apple, the current M chip will be history........
A point many are obviously not going to be real fond of.
It is a vicious cycle that comes with the choice of owning a Mac..... Ask yourself how many times they have already done this......
I can think of 4 times in 20ish years, and it could actually be 5 depending on how you look at it.... So every 4 or 5 years, on average, with a documented history of doing so...
Those that own a Mac willingly bought it with a known, and documented history, of total abandonment....
Apple has yet to announce what chip will be made at the 2nm process... But they already announced Cupertino is already designing the M6 with Wafer-Level Multi-Chip Module packaging.... M5 may already be the last of the current design....
BOHICA..... Bend over, here it comes again....
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