Thanks a lot for your honest reply.

Sooo Apple Watch?!

By making it for OSX, you have covered 10% of designers, cool.. Now bring this to windows and cover the entire awesome designers.

Please don't think, USA is the only world and Everyone has Mac / iPhone :P

~Surjith

I firmly believe that you could charge more for Sketch since it's an established application for OS X. And the lack of trials is inconsequential since you could easily do a trial within the app that would provide access to all tools for a period of time. The tool could then be unlocked after the trial with an in-app purchase.

Thanks Emanuel for clarifying. Do what you do best.

Sketch has transformed the way I design sites and interfaces and saved me so much time. Thank you guys for the great work.

BTW. Just an idea. Make a Sketch Pro with some advanced symbol functionality and no bugs and charge 499.-

Thanks for making the right decision. Just keep making Sketch better.

Gutted :(

iPad Pro seems like a great bit of hardware, and it seems like it would be better than any Wacom for most of the work I do (portability, retina display, low-lag, no fucking around setting the thing up). Without decent professional apps though, it's just another device.

For what it's worth I would totally pay full price for Sketch iOS. It's happening slowly, but I think the tide is turning on how much people are prepared to pay for a good iOS app.

How about an app for reviewing designs? open .sketch files from iCloud, view artboards, and export some of them to share, or mark annotations? that will be very useful for design meetings

or, for developers, they may want an app for inspecting elements? (for color code, dimension, placement spec)

Anyway a sketch campanion app would be very nice, I think production work is much much better on desktops

Hi Emanuel.

My name is Florian, and I am the head of Growth and Marketing at Teambition.

Sketch has made my life easier versus having to use Photoshop to get the simplest design stuff done.

However, I have just read about your decision not to bring Sketch to iOS. A couple of days ago, I also tweeted to one of your team members about potential support for Windows 10. Response was: nein. Keine Windows 10.

So let's summarize all this: I now have to renew my hardware. Seeing the Apple conference, the only new stuff that I could buy and be proud of buying is the iPad Pro. Which you will not be supporting.

Only equivalent that makes sense right now - and that I personally would love - would be the Surface Pro 3. Windows 10 rocks, the Surface rocks as well, and with the Surface Pro 4 arriving soon I would have JUMPED literally on it. No questions asked, I would have bought it. Which you will not be supporting.

In fact, out of all the apps I use, you are the ONLY ONE not supported on either, but that my company relies on for design. Which means, we are basically all forced to now buy a Macbook Air or Macbook, that not only don't have this tablet/pen stuff, but that are also heavy, outdated, and underperforming because they haven't been receiving any hardware update from Apple.

So, that first thing, as you can see, does not work at all.

Now, here is the second part.

The fact that Mac hardware hasn't been upgraded means something: it means Mac OS X will eventually die. And maybe faster than we anticipated. Which is the platform you currently support.

Next point: doing design on a Mac is a thing that only Europeans and Americans have "historically" chose to do. But that's what I would call it: history. The stereotype of designers only doing their work on a Mac will probably change, with different devices and OSes showing up. I also personally know people who do design on Windows, and they are very fine with it.

So, it feels like you are making a big time strategic design for your company based on whatever "feeling" you have users are using as an OS/hardware.

Same when it comes to some countries, like India or China, a lot of people rely on Windows. With such a growth as the one for Windows 10, and a new set of APIs and development tools to create Windows 10 apps, you are still choosing to completely ignore it.

And those choices are bringing something very bad for you guys: you're pissing users off. People like me. Who decided we would trust your company to provide the best solution, and right now we are let down. Literally. Why can't you just raise money to hire a couple of .NET developers and build a Windows 10 app? I see no reason. Adobe has a nice business model and makes money, you could probably make money as well. There isn't any real debate here.

So, here, I said it. What I think about what you're doing right now, and expressing my frustration as a user right now. To your management now to tell us what's "really" going to happen instead of trying to justify why you won't invest in any of the platforms of the future.

Yours trully,

Florian.

I would be willing to pay a premium price for a fully functioning sketch app on ipad! I'm thinking many others would as well. Kickstarter to gauge interest?

Thanks for your reply. Love what you guys do.

This is an impressive stance. I’m sure it’s compelling to pursue many different OSs/devices. That said, your choice to focus on one platform, one audience, and one key use case results in a better product. Thank you!

I would pay the same price for sketch on the iPad pro as mac without hesitation.

Hello, I see this post has 3 years old and see your point, but now, I'm sure if sketch is ported to iPad, you'll have a huge revenue now :)

Despite being obvious as to what the problems are, your comment is quite anti-visionary with a pinch of arrogance. I hope this has changed since it has been posted 4y ago as the industry has started to adopt iPad pro as a potential alternative for doing "work". One can argue it isn't there yet, but it's well underway and I believe Microsoft has set the way with their surface tablet.

So the one comment I have for you Mr. Sa, look at the signals all around you and keep an open mind. Many platform shifts are happening. How are you going to lead your team to adapt?

It doesn't take much to be disrupted in the world we live in and you don't seem to want to open to that option from the top of your mountain.

No one is undisruptable, not even Sketch.