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> They could have replaced Apple as the darling of developers Hardly, from my perspective, but do you have sources for that claim, or for Apple formerly being
by Razengan 7y ago
> They could have replaced Apple as the darling of developers
Hardly, from my perspective, but do you have sources for that claim, or for Apple formerly being the "darling" for that matter?
- nawgszy 7y agoIf one speaks from a Silicon Valley perspective, they call Apple a developer darling because it seems like every developer has an Apple laptop
- cameronbrown 7y agoTrue, but Apple has a huge developer fan base whereas Microsoft didn't until very recently, and that's only due to their massive course correction with WSL, VSCode, among others.
- jodrellblank 7y agoMicrosoft, the largest software company with the most-used OS by businesses, most popular pc gaming platform and Xbox, maker of visual studio - The standard dev tool on windows, the biggest java competitor, one of the big SQL engines, one of the big web servers, has had a huge developer fan base since long before Ballmer’s famous “developers” presentation. Much much bigger than Apple by having much much more marketshare of everything except smartphones.