harold_velez
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Is iFly available for MacOS? I'd like to install it on a MacBook Pro.
iFlyEFB for MacOS
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Just to note: iFly EFB is written on a very portable platform which can be deployed to MacOS (with 98% code re-use). But for developers (not users), Apple is difficult to work with, and publishing to MacOS is non-trivial. Getting the first release out might take us a few-man-months, and then moving forward, an extra few hours per release.
The first hurdle, "few man months", doesn't currently have a business case to drive this. If we gained 100+ new users as a result of adding MacOS support, that would be the approximate gain required to provide a compelling business case to add this support.
If you are motivated, you can add a "Feature Request" to that forum called "MacOS Support", and see how many upvotes this idea gets, for us to approximate the perceived gain behind it all.
The first hurdle, "few man months", doesn't currently have a business case to drive this. If we gained 100+ new users as a result of adding MacOS support, that would be the approximate gain required to provide a compelling business case to add this support.
If you are motivated, you can add a "Feature Request" to that forum called "MacOS Support", and see how many upvotes this idea gets, for us to approximate the perceived gain behind it all.
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Brian and others,
If I may add to this, the newest Mac set (M1 series or newer) can (unofficially) support iFly EFB. I believe this to be due to Apple's move to ARM based architecture. You can find the app in the Mac's app store. I actually have iFly EFB on my new Macbook Pro 14", but I haven't tested it much.
If I may add to this, the newest Mac set (M1 series or newer) can (unofficially) support iFly EFB. I believe this to be due to Apple's move to ARM based architecture. You can find the app in the Mac's app store. I actually have iFly EFB on my new Macbook Pro 14", but I haven't tested it much.
There are a few things that don’t run correctly. Not because of the emulation, but because of hardware inconsistency. Ex, no gps to provide location services. There is a work around, but requires an iPhone
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Chad,
Yeah, very true. Could be said for desktop based Windows machines. But, users like to use a desktop experience for flight planning and then pass it over to the other devices. So, maybe now we have an avenue for Mac to do the same!
Yeah, very true. Could be said for desktop based Windows machines. But, users like to use a desktop experience for flight planning and then pass it over to the other devices. So, maybe now we have an avenue for Mac to do the same!