All this to say, a substantial push is being made to expand both the capabilities of Crestron’s platform and the technical advancement it incorporates. The past few years have seen the release of several changes in Crestron’s products, programming tools and techniques and the emphasis placed on Certified Crestron programmers, now called Crestron Service Providers. That’s changed now with the advent of Crestron’s Core3 UI and Smart Graphics in fact, done correctly the same XPanel file can run across both platforms without the need for any rework. Historically, Crestron has allowed XPanels to run on Mac computers, but it usually takes a lot of extra work to build both a PC-compatible XPanel application and one to run on Macs.