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> True developers used MacBooks? Yes, three out of four tech companies I've been employed at and many more I've visited have been mac shops. Your made-up just

by wyager 10y ago

> True developers used MacBooks? Yes, three out of four tech companies I've been employed at and many more I've visited have been mac shops. Your made-up justifications don't even touch on the real reasons people prefer macs a lot of the time; it's UNIX, it's easy to use, and the hardware is high-quality. I think this might just be bait, but I do hear comments like this all the time off HN, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

SamUK96 10y ago
>the hardware is high-quality. On the outside, maybe? The internal components of Apple products are notoriously planned and built for obsolescence and failure to keep you trendy folk giving them money, line after line (and then charge you to fix the failures!) >it's UNIX People would use Linux if the platform had the money to bribe software makers to support them. That's a "forced-reason", and not a positive design point of Apple itself. >made-up justifications Call everything you don't agree with "made-up"? But seriously though, the reasons that devs use macs are mostly forced/non-reasons: a) Earn a tonne of money and terrible value is not a problem for them b) Need it since the thing they are developing needs to be tested on macs c) Need UNIX and software that supports running on it. d) etc. After a while, you realise most of the reasons why any developer ever buys Apple starts with "need", which, hopefully, you should understand is a statement to the marketing, underhand, and monopolistic tactics of Apple (forcing you to "need" their products, rather than want them)