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Is this a selection bias? 1. Users prefer Macs 2. Users also have Macs at home 3. Users choose to switch at work. This leaves number out employees on each p
by Forge36 7y ago
Is this a selection bias?
1. Users prefer Macs
2. Users also have Macs at home
3. Users choose to switch at work.
This leaves number out employees on each platform. One place mentions 200,000, another 277,000 "Apple devices" the article starts with 290,000
It's not really clear to me what how the two compare at the conclusions are shown but done if the data is missing
Approximating from their total employee count (350,000) these do appear to be ~50/50.
If this is accurate, 80% of IBM is using a Mac or 50% (depending on your which number you use)
Is there another company using Macs at this rate (not Apple)?
Given this: I'm curious why users are more productive and how to replicate that success beyond "buy a Mac"
- hindsightbias 7y agoOlder techs typically more win biased and IBM swings older. youts and some older devs wanted Macbooks, and fought a trench war. Built their own support system. Lenovo Tpads went to crap for a long while after the last IBM t6X, and replacement brands were even worse. So many of the older crowd gave in. There were guys dragging their duct-taped t60s until 2017 or so. CFO/CTO saw the light and formalized the Apple lovefest.