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If one speaks from a Silicon Valley perspective, they call Apple a developer darling because it seems like every developer has an Apple laptop
by nawgszy 7y ago
If 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.