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Anectdote, but all Android developers (and WP devs forcwhat it's worth) are uding Macbooks Pro as their work machines. That's in Europe, and not even in Western

Anectdote, but all Android developers (and WP devs forcwhat it's worth) are uding Macbooks Pro as their work machines. That's in Europe, and not even in Western.

pjmlp 10y ago
Well, I am yet to work in any client that uses Mac for any kind of development besides iOS, and even when they do, they timeshare an iMac across teams.
- bennyg 10y ago
  You're both being super anecdotal here. Look at sales numbers to get a more accurate view of what the actual landscape looks like.
  - pjmlp 10y ago
    What sales numbers regarding Mac OS world wide!? Are you aware of the amount of countries where even software developers hardly earn more than 1000€ per month on average? How many apps are you selling on southern Europe, south America or across Asian countries?
digi_owl 10y ago
I wonder how many of those devs "pivoted" from being web devs. Best i can tell, Mac got a inroad in the web development world thanks to: A. Being unix based and thus similar to the then prevalent LAMP stack. B. Apple having a entrenched position in media production, and web development, via newspapers and broadcasters going online, becoming a part of that economy.
- acdha 10y ago
  A) was important: Windows was going through some painful transitions and still required paid compiler licenses, which meant porting open source apps was painful, and while Linux was many things, a comfortable desktop OS was not one of them, especially if battery life or not crashing mattered to you (usually video driver or power management bugs rather than the kernel but people with jobs to do don't make that distinction). A Mac was the one OS where it was easy to run PHP and Photoshop, and the small size + long battery life era starting with the Titanium PowerBook didn't hurt at all. I knew it was going to be interesting when all of the developers and Unix admins I knew started buying Mac laptops for daily use. If only I'd bought more AAPL at $17…

Anectdote, but all Android developers (and WP devs forcwhat it's worth) are uding Macbooks Pro as their work machines. That's in Europe, and not even in Western.

pjmlp 10y ago

Well, I am yet to work in any client that uses Mac for any kind of development besides iOS, and even when they do, they timeshare an iMac across teams.

bennyg 10y ago
You're both being super anecdotal here. Look at sales numbers to get a more accurate view of what the actual landscape looks like.
- pjmlp 10y ago
  What sales numbers regarding Mac OS world wide!? Are you aware of the amount of countries where even software developers hardly earn more than 1000€ per month on average? How many apps are you selling on southern Europe, south America or across Asian countries?

digi_owl 10y ago

I wonder how many of those devs "pivoted" from being web devs. Best i can tell, Mac got a inroad in the web development world thanks to: A. Being unix based and thus similar to the then prevalent LAMP stack. B. Apple having a entrenched position in media production, and web development, via newspapers and broadcasters going online, becoming a part of that economy.

acdha 10y ago
A) was important: Windows was going through some painful transitions and still required paid compiler licenses, which meant porting open source apps was painful, and while Linux was many things, a comfortable desktop OS was not one of them, especially if battery life or not crashing mattered to you (usually video driver or power management bugs rather than the kernel but people with jobs to do don't make that distinction). A Mac was the one OS where it was easy to run PHP and Photoshop, and the small size + long battery life era starting with the Titanium PowerBook didn't hurt at all. I knew it was going to be interesting when all of the developers and Unix admins I knew started buying Mac laptops for daily use. If only I'd bought more AAPL at $17…