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> a step backwards in what a "professional" wants and needs from such a machine An observation: I'm typically working in coffeeshops; over the last couple of y
by mike_ivanov 8y ago
> a step backwards in what a "professional" wants and needs from such a machine
An observation: I'm typically working in coffeeshops; over the last couple of years the share of MacBooks in those places went from nearly 100% to like virtually none. Hipsters and younger people are all on Windows 10 now. Rarely you can see a Mac, and it almost invariably is of a previous generation.
- hedora 8y agoThe fraction of Linux laptops at work has skyrocketed as well. That probably shows up at Microsoft as Win10 revenue, fwiw.
- archagon 8y agoLess app development, more web development?
- ithinkinstereo 8y agoInteresting, I've seen the opposite trend, which is especially noticeable overseas (5 years ago you would see virtually no MacBooks, now its 50%+).
- wepple 8y agoThat’s a really interesting datapoint, mind sharing what city that is? In NYC I’d say it’s 80-90% macbook
- mike_ivanov 8y agoVancouver, BC.
- navidfarhadi 8y agoTo add my own anecdotal data point, here in the Mountain View and Palo Alto area it used to be 95% MacBooks in coffee shops 6-7 years ago and now it is more like 80-85%. Pretty much every laptop that isn't a MacBook is either a ThinkPad, Dell Latitude/XPS, or Microsoft Surface.