In theory, we could spread our resources more on platforms and thus less on functionality. “That focus is very important and we want to make sure that we don’t spread our resources too thin.
“We’d love to be on the Mac, but we have engineering priorities…so we have to ask ourselves what’s most important for our users,” said Jack Dangermond. In the early 1990s, during the early days of ArcView, Esri was working on a port of ArcView to the Macintosh, but due to engineering challenges it never got beyond pre-release.Īs it does every year, the question came up again at the 2011 Esri International User Conference: “When will ArcGIS Run on a Mac?” This question was addressed at the UC Closing Session on Friday. Gridapple was the first microcomputer implementation of Esri’s raster-based “Grid” system.
This was back in the early 1981, when a short-lived product called “Gridapple” was released for the pre-Mac Apple II platform. About the only thing we didn’t do with them was run Esri software.Įsri actually did make software that ran on the Apple platform at one time. People used them to write documentation, design graphics, and write proposals. In the late 1980s, Macintosh computers were commonplace on the desks of Esri staff. Also, “ Q: When will Esri support native Mac OS and Mac hardware?” – See the answer at. The 2013 Esri User Conference Q & A (July 2013) notes: “ Q: Can Esri develop a simple Mac-based viewer for ArcGIS Online?” – See the answer at.
Note: in the ~2 years months since the post below was written, some things have changed. Explorer for ArcGIS on the Mac will be available at the 2014 User Conference.ĭevelopers can develop native apps for Mac OS using the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for OS X. Similar to the iOS app, it will work with web maps and access ArcGIS for Server services (both on premises and hosted). In addition, Explorer for ArcGIS will run natively on the Mac OS. This is a high-performance environment, and many of our developers at Esri use the Mac environment as their platform. It does, however, run very well on Mac using Windows emulation software (e.g., Bootcamp).
We currently have no plans to migrate the full ArcGIS for Desktop to the Mac OS.
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