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Two big reasons I think Mac OSX is so popular with devs: 1.) There are better graphical tools/apps available for OSX then any other OS. Kaldeoscope, Tower, Sour
by jaegerpicker 12y ago
Two big reasons I think Mac OSX is so popular with devs:
1.) There are better graphical tools/apps available for OSX then any other OS. Kaldeoscope, Tower, SourceTree(also for windows), Atom(coming soon to other platforms), iTunes, many more games available for down time, evernote client, tweetbot, sequel pro, pattern, and imessage are just some of the better apps that are aren't available or have poor alternates on other OSes.
2.) A rMBP is the best machine available if you want to develop mobile apps. It's one machine that allows you to build an app for any mobile device out there.
- ClashTheBunny 12y agoI really think that this is the answer. There is no other way to create iOS apps today. You must own an Apple branded computer to do so and for that reason there are always going to be a high percentage of people with a MacBook of some sort just to do the compile. I can spin up a VM of Linux on anything, but I can't legally do the same with OS X without having the hardware.