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Mac is kind of not there in the developer community, unless you're talking about shops that deal primarily in the iOS space. One of my coworkers was given a Ma

Mac is kind of not there in the developer community, unless you're talking about shops that deal primarily in the iOS space. One of my coworkers was given a Mac laptop by IT, not sure why. He uses it to RDP into his Windows desktop. I've told him he should probably... fix that, but he says he's happy with his workflow, and who am I to judge. It's also helped us catch at least one RDP related bug in our software, which is nice. Apple is rightfully very targeted towards the content creation crowd. It's a very spendy bread and butter to carry around in your pocket.

brokensegue 7y ago
This is not my experience.
_bxg1 7y ago
MacBook Pros are extremely popular with certain segments of developers. But we (typically) need a quad-core and 16Gb of ram, not a 28-core and 384GB ram and three graphics cards.
pertymcpert 7y ago
I'm sorry, what? That's completely false.
tonyedgecombe 7y ago
From https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-developers-primary-operating-systems https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-... Windows: 47.5% macOS: 26.8% Linux: 25.6%
coldtea 7y ago
>Mac is kind of not there in the developer community, unless you're talking about shops that deal primarily in the iOS space. Not in the West. Go to any conference, Java, Rails, JS, Rust, etc, and the share of Mac is widely more than its average market share (like 40% vs 5-10% of the overall market). And when it comes to presenters and "star devs" it's way too much Mac share...
StuffedParrot 7y ago
> Mac is kind of not there in the developer community, unless you're talking about shops that deal primarily in the iOS space. This is certainly cultural. I’ve worked in four different states for four different developer driven companies and they were all mac dominated. Macs are certainly “there” in the developer community.

brokensegue 7y ago

This is not my experience.

_bxg1 7y ago

MacBook Pros are extremely popular with certain segments of developers. But we (typically) need a quad-core and 16Gb of ram, not a 28-core and 384GB ram and three graphics cards.

pertymcpert 7y ago

I'm sorry, what? That's completely false.

tonyedgecombe 7y ago

From https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-developers-primary-operating-systems https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-... Windows: 47.5% macOS: 26.8% Linux: 25.6%

coldtea 7y ago

>Mac is kind of not there in the developer community, unless you're talking about shops that deal primarily in the iOS space. Not in the West. Go to any conference, Java, Rails, JS, Rust, etc, and the share of Mac is widely more than its average market share (like 40% vs 5-10% of the overall market). And when it comes to presenters and "star devs" it's way too much Mac share...

StuffedParrot 7y ago

> Mac is kind of not there in the developer community, unless you're talking about shops that deal primarily in the iOS space. This is certainly cultural. I’ve worked in four different states for four different developer driven companies and they were all mac dominated. Macs are certainly “there” in the developer community.