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I think you drastically overestimate the number of iOS developers. Or, more specifically, the number of developers in general. Apple sells ~20 million Macs per

I think you drastically overestimate the number of iOS developers. Or, more specifically, the number of developers in general. Apple sells ~20 million Macs per year. If we assume that developers buy a new machine every 3 years or so, and all Macs are bought by iOS developers, that would be 60 million developers. There are on the order of 2 million iOS apps in the store, so I expect there are far fewer than 60 million iOS developers and the overwhelming majority of consumers buy them for other reasons. Hence the trend for features that appeal to casual users (sleek exterior, glossy screens, shallow keyboards) and not to actual professionals.

Haydos585x2 7y ago
From my experience everyone in an agency will be given a new MacBook/MacBook Pro when they start unless they are explicitly a Windows shop. There are design tools like Sketch that are only available on OS X as well. I think there's probably a coolness-factor coming in as well. No one wants to be the agency with a bunch of crummy old Windows laptops, how uncool! They'll get laughed out of Cannes.
- LeifCarrotson 7y ago
  Where are you? Here in the Midwest, I have seen a handful of personal Macbooks (mostly sales guys, who also can be seen with Surfaces/iPads) but all the engineers have Thinkpads, Latitudes, or ZBooks.
  - asark 7y ago
    Midwest here, too. It's Macbooks all the way most any place under three-digit headcount. Or agencies, no matter the size. Larger places seem to favor Windows laptops where possible (all but iOS dev) because they're usually using MS collab and comm tools, plus (I assume) enterprise management with them is easier and/or finding Windows enterprise install base managers is easier. I think I've seen someone running Linux on their work machine, like, once, in... 18 years? Twice if I count me, in the first half of my career.
  - Haydos585x2 7y ago
    I'm in Melbourne, Australia. When I'm at larger enterprise sites there'll be more Windows devices but like the other reply to you said most of the agencies I've ever been to are MacBooks all the way along.
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Haydos585x2 7y ago

From my experience everyone in an agency will be given a new MacBook/MacBook Pro when they start unless they are explicitly a Windows shop. There are design tools like Sketch that are only available on OS X as well. I think there's probably a coolness-factor coming in as well. No one wants to be the agency with a bunch of crummy old Windows laptops, how uncool! They'll get laughed out of Cannes.

LeifCarrotson 7y ago
Where are you? Here in the Midwest, I have seen a handful of personal Macbooks (mostly sales guys, who also can be seen with Surfaces/iPads) but all the engineers have Thinkpads, Latitudes, or ZBooks.
- asark 7y ago
  Midwest here, too. It's Macbooks all the way most any place under three-digit headcount. Or agencies, no matter the size. Larger places seem to favor Windows laptops where possible (all but iOS dev) because they're usually using MS collab and comm tools, plus (I assume) enterprise management with them is easier and/or finding Windows enterprise install base managers is easier. I think I've seen someone running Linux on their work machine, like, once, in... 18 years? Twice if I count me, in the first half of my career.
- Haydos585x2 7y ago
  I'm in Melbourne, Australia. When I'm at larger enterprise sites there'll be more Windows devices but like the other reply to you said most of the agencies I've ever been to are MacBooks all the way along.
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