I think this is highly dependent on what space a person is developing in. I can say from experience that embedded development is far easier on a windows platfor

I think this is highly dependent on what space a person is developing in. I can say from experience that embedded development is far easier on a windows platform. Many of the tools are just not available on OSX. I do embedded as a hobby and I try to use OSX as much as possible but the reality is that it is significantly more hassle to do it on OSX than on windows. If I where doing embedded development professionally I would most certainly use windows.