You can develop Android apps on a Mac, but you can't develop iOS apps without a Mac. Furthermore from an app market perspective, Apple's App Store saw around

You can develop Android apps on a Mac, but you can't develop iOS apps without a Mac. Furthermore from an app market perspective, Apple's App Store saw around $140-150B in spending in 2025 versus $60-65B in spending on Google Play during the same time period [0]. As such, procurement teams coalesced around purchasing MacBooks because it opened the most doors. > WSL gives a pretty great Linux dev experience under Windows It's decent, but the a major blocker for enterprises adopting WSL is it's unsupported by most XDR tools, making it a no-go from a risk/audit perspective. I can't speak for WSL's developer experience, but the fact that I know L64+ employees at MS using "the Scottish laptop" is telling. [0] - https://backlinko.com/iphone-vs-android-statistics https://backlinko.com/iphone-vs-android-statistics