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Citation needed. Every software company I've worked in building websites/webapps (Ruby, Python, Java, HTML/CSS/JS/React/whatever etc.) tends to issue their dev

Citation needed. Every software company I've worked in building websites/webapps (Ruby, Python, Java, HTML/CSS/JS/React/whatever etc.) tends to issue their developers with MBPs. None of them need to do so for Xcode to build Mac/iOS apps. A few people may opt for Lenovos running Linux, but they're a distinct minority who really likes compiling their own tiling window manager from scratch etc. Why MBP as standard? Because you get a reasonably stable Unix box that also runs commercial business and productivity software (Office, video conference stuff), and the Adobe suite for the front-end/creative folks. Windows is going after that with WSL. Linux is going after that with, err, GNU/Freedom I guess? Writing Python/Ruby/JavaScript/Java/Go/Elixir/whatever hot new shiny, in Atom or Vim or VSCode, is about as easy on Linux as it is on Mac (and it is getting better on Windows with WSL). But when you've got to use some awful video conferencing corporate crapware, there's at least some chance it'll work on a Mac in a way it won't on Linux.

Matthias247 7y ago
Just a guess - but you are in the US, right? In most other places of the world I have not seen macbooks being used for non Apple related development tasks due to pricing.
- lawtalkinghuman 7y ago
  UK.
- rimliu 7y ago
  I am in Europe, and in the country that used to be a part of USSR. The last four companies I worked for also offered Macbooks for developers by default.
  - Matthias247 7y ago
    It's interesting to hear. I have not seen a lot of Macbooks in any of the companies I worked for nor the one we partnered with in germany. At least in software development, in creative domains (photo, video) things are different. In north america Macbooks seem to be more or less the default hardware (also mainly my personal impressions - since I moved there).
- simonh 7y ago
  That seems unlikely given that the Air range are by far the most popular models, and are squarely aimed at the mass consumer market. Also it’s seems a bit unlikely the masses of people crowding in the Apple stores in the UK all the time are all developers.
AtlasLion 7y ago
you get a reasonably stable Unix box that also runs some commercial business software and worst terminal experience than running full ubuntu on windows wsl. Ubuntu on WSL> brew on mac.

Matthias247 7y ago

Just a guess - but you are in the US, right? In most other places of the world I have not seen macbooks being used for non Apple related development tasks due to pricing.

lawtalkinghuman 7y ago
UK.
rimliu 7y ago
I am in Europe, and in the country that used to be a part of USSR. The last four companies I worked for also offered Macbooks for developers by default.
- Matthias247 7y ago
  It's interesting to hear. I have not seen a lot of Macbooks in any of the companies I worked for nor the one we partnered with in germany. At least in software development, in creative domains (photo, video) things are different. In north america Macbooks seem to be more or less the default hardware (also mainly my personal impressions - since I moved there).
simonh 7y ago
That seems unlikely given that the Air range are by far the most popular models, and are squarely aimed at the mass consumer market. Also it’s seems a bit unlikely the masses of people crowding in the Apple stores in the UK all the time are all developers.

AtlasLion 7y ago

you get a reasonably stable Unix box that also runs some commercial business software and worst terminal experience than running full ubuntu on windows wsl. Ubuntu on WSL> brew on mac.