I strongly believe a lot of the mac trend came from Rails, Textmate and 37signals promoting that dev platform with their work. Add the iOS goldrush to that and

I strongly believe a lot of the mac trend came from Rails, Textmate and 37signals promoting that dev platform with their work. Add the iOS goldrush to that and you have your reason for OSX as a dominant dev platform. Especially in the startup space, a lot of people changed back then but with tools like vagrant and vms in general, the choice isn't as clear today imo.