Apple fully embraced the open source community as a launch-pad for Mac OS X a decade ago. So the initial early adopters were all Unix/Linux enthusiasts that wer

Apple fully embraced the open source community as a launch-pad for Mac OS X a decade ago. So the initial early adopters were all Unix/Linux enthusiasts that were establishing all the web technologies. Plus, for the first time you could compile apache and use Photoshop in the same environment. Then developers who were there early on because of that, started writing the tools that later became the standard. (eg. TextMate, Transmit)