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Scoble: Is Windows out and Macintosh in among Silicon Valley's elite?

• contextfree 16y ago
  When was Windows ever in among Silicon Valley's elite?
• beatpanda 16y ago
  WTF? Scoble is smarter than this. OS X (and Linux to a lesser extent) replaced Windows among hackers and developers a long time ago. Where's he been this whole time?
  • inkaudio 16y ago
    Exactly, this just leads to another lame mac vs pc war in the comments.
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• r00fus 16y ago
  link-bait. Seriously, slashdot was reporting about the OSX mindshare takeover of hackers back in 2001 and the TiBook. Ever since then, it's been a pretty engrained stereotype, and Apple's offerings have only gotten better.
• tzs 16y ago
  Yes, as several people have pointed out here, the trend of hackers and other developers going Mac was noted a long time ago. Paul Graham wrote about it in his essay "Return of the Mac" in 2005. Scoble is talking about something bigger--not just hackers and developers. He's talking the business guys and the marketing guys. He's talking about people that came from Microsoft. He's also talking about seeing a lot of iPads, and how maybe Jobs is right about the post-PC world.