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Looks like they've been selling around 18 million macs a year (https://www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-mac-computers-since-first-quarter-2006/

Looks like they've been selling around 18 million macs a year (https://www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-mac-computers-since-first-quarter-2006/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-ma...). If you ignore individuals having multiple computers, and assume the average lifetime of a machine is 5 years, you get 90 million people with a Mac. I don't know how many developers there are, but saw 20-25 million in some estimates.

oblio 6y ago
The vast majority of developed worldwide are using crummy Windows laptops and developing internal enterprise software :-) At best Macs probably have a marketshare of 30% among developers. The US and big tech companies are outliers regarding Mac usage.
- jevgeni 6y ago
  Win10 developer experience is far better than Mac OS. And way more versatile. Not to mention the brain dead design of UX when somebody FaceTimes you while you are developing in full screen mode...
pier25 6y ago
IIRC Tim said in today's keynote there are 23M Apple developers. Very roughly, 20% of macOS users are developers.
- lokedhs 6y ago
  20% of users are Apple developers. There are plenty of developers who use their hardware but don't develop for Apple products (a web developer wouldn't be an Apple developer). Or have things changed since I left the Apple ecosystem? I'm assuming you don't need to be a registered developer to use things like "make" or download IntelliJ IDEA?
  - pier25 6y ago
    Yes you're right, that's what I meant. If you're doing web dev you don't need to be a registered Apple developer.