Part of the answer to that question is that I have a secret weapon that helps me develop X-Plane at a much faster rate than any would-be competitors. People ask me all the time: “Austin, how can you compete with bigger companies? You cannot possibly stay in the flight sim business! You will be out of business by the end of the year!” (Never mind that they have been saying that since X-Plane was introduced in 1994!) Here’s what owner and developer Austin Meyer has to say about it: In the past, we’ve called the Mac our secret weapon. In fact, X-Plane is developed primarily on Macs. X-Plane is the most powerful and accurate flight simulator available for personal computers, but it doesn’t just run on Windows the version of X-Plane sold here at runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
