Hi Joao, maybe don't worry about making a Mac version at all, if it seems too far off your track.
Different fractions of users have a long time dispute over what OS etc. to use. I can only recommend not to get to deep in it and rather stick to what you got. The discussion doesn't seem to get more fruitful over the last two decades... and especially maybe, because ongoing audio-non-related updates to operating systems, other software and hardware will render any temporary positive outcome of such discussion useless by the next or overnext update.
Putting those two insights together i can tell you, that i would personally would very much appreciate a Mac version not just reaching back to 10.13. Pure Data and Reaper are both positive examples for how to do this right: Mac softwares available from 10.5 upwards and in 32bit and 64bit enable your best friends, the udpate resistant users to continue to work on without unnecessary updates and on machines, which are working for at least decades.
NOT catering to the update craze as a dev is probably best practice today, if you don't want to support paying for same functionality over, and over, and over again. Just say no to Apple's dev policies. :D
My two Euro cents and good luck,
jrp
P.S.: Maybe the Reaper devs have good advice on Mac versions? They came from Windows originally, and the software is available to all degrees of users outside the apple store, which is great.
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that's unfortunately not a practical solution either, to buy more hardware. the software already ran on laptops, and several people preferred an app (which is an even worse minefield for a developer).
I think no one should buy apple anyway, but many people do, and my problem is how to get to them.