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I’m sorry, but your memory is either for a very specific community or just naive. Just the sheer number of applications around web development for Windows vs Ma
by deaddodo 5y ago
I’m sorry, but your memory is either for a very specific community or just naive. Just the sheer number of applications around web development for Windows vs Mac at the time would disprove that belief. For every Cyberduck; you have a WinSCP, FileZilla, CuteFTP, SmartFTP, CoreFTP, CrossFTP, etc. Especially since the Macromedia suite was also available on Windows.
Having been in the community pretty deeply in those days, I can assure you that Apple didn’t gain any sizeable market share until Web 2.0. The prototype.js + Rails developers definitely preferred OS X for their tool suite. The growth of backend developers, in general, led to Apple’s growth; via developer’s needing terminal access and easy installation/management of backend tools with ease of use.
- bluedino 5y agoI think I'm going back farther than you think. Webstar, BBEdit, and of course the Macromedia stuff which was in it's infancy. Macs seemed like a bargain compared to say a WebForce Indy
- deaddodo 5y agoI'm talking pre-Macromedia. The mid-90s to mid-00s were ruled by Windows developers on the web, with a slice for Linux and Mac users. Mac didn't become any sort of influence until sometime between 2006 and 2009 and certainly didn't gain its current popularity with web developers until 2012-2013. If you're talking pre-Windows 95, certainly Mac was more popular than after it's release. But the OS also had a much more sizeable marketshare[1] and the inverse was true (Windows was devoid of software and tools). At the same time, however, the web was also much smaller and certainly still in it's nascent infancy. 1 - https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/7/ https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/7/