Internally a large fraction of our developers work on Macs, so we’ve had a Mac version since day-one, but the installer has always been lagging. Part of that was market forces and customers requiring the Windows installer first and part of that was the Mac experience being so generally smooth that a clumsy installer really sticks out like a sore thumb.

We’ve now got two separate Mac installers, one that runs in-browser and one that’s a traditional .dmg style. We’re beta-ing the in-browser experience first because our customers have expressed a preference for it, but I’m sure you’ll see both before too long.

For now, if interested Mac owners could try out http://beta.swarmcast.com/showcase/ and let us know how it works we’d certainly appreciate it. We’ve run this thing a few thousand times internally and haven’t seen any system-damaging behaviors, nor do we have any reason to suspect some might exist, but as always do take the usual precautions when running any new software.

Feedback is greatly appreciated either in the forums or at our support (at) getautobahn (dot) com address.