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You're missing the point. I'm not saying macs are bad or whatever, I'm saying that "macs are the default hardware for everyone ^W developers" is just skewed ove
by dom0 10y ago
You're missing the point. I'm not saying macs are bad or whatever, I'm saying that "macs are the default hardware for everyone ^W developers" is just skewed overall. Backing that claim up by "but [I feel like] 90 % of conference people have a macbook on their lap" is just backing my claim up, that it's a skewed perception, because conference attendees are a minority of all developers (they have to be - just compare the number of developers to the attendee numbers of big conferences), and you can't just extrapolate (the same goes for "I only see {macbooks, XPSes, thinkpads (pick one)} at $coffeeShop").
Many people don't care about conferences at all, or their employers don't care (and hence these people don't feel like spending hundreds of bucks from their own pockets to attend), some don't want to go on conferences and so on. For/to many developers they are just irrelevant. Obviously not everyone goes to coffee shops, either.
- lallysingh 10y agoThere's going to be a lot of variance across different populations of developers. For tech sector, I've worked in big tech companies smaller ones, and the majority of developers consistently use macs as their laptops. Your experience can be different, but without a global survey, there's no way to be sure. The closest proxy we can probably find is what CS students are using - as they'll likely continue using that platform going forward. There aren't hard reasons to switch as there used to be -- VPN software tends to work well on all 3 platforms, and there's not nearly as much client-side native development as there used to be.