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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Except that this logic is ridiculously easy to strike down in court.
Microsoft Office is most definitely not cross-compiled for Windows and OS X, and yet Microsoft makes the effort even though Windows is 90% of the market. I’m sure the same could be said of InDesign or Photoshop too. In fact, the lack of platform agnostic code was the principal reason Adobe dragged their feet for so long delivering a 64bit Cocoa native Photoshop on the Mac platform.
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Windows and OS X have absolutely zero to do with any of this. There is no EULA in either Windows nor OS X that restricts you from cross-compiling apps with any other platform. Just because MS bothered to port an app to OS X doesn't mean that cross-compiling isn't a valid option for some people. Nor does it mean that everyone should have to port their apps like MS did. Moreover, large apps like Word are not typically easily cross-compiled where small apps like the ones that run on mobile phones are, but again desktop/laptop OSes are completely irrelevant because there is absolutely zero legal means stopping you from cross-compiling.