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Most of these Apple computers are owned by Google users.

• epistasis 12y ago
  And a large percentage of Google devs are Apple users. Edit: for the apparent doubter of this, see any number of articles about Google's 40,000 macs that they use as dev machines, for example: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/managing-macs-google-scale https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/managing-macs-googl... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/27/google_mac_support/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/27/google_mac_support/
  • HeavenFox 12y ago
    Google Engineers mostly use their beefy workstations with a Google-flavored Ubuntu installed to code. Most engineers have Mac laptops though (at least my team), even though their use is quite limited (you cannot store code there, so mostly you have to ssh or remote desktop to your workstation) Source: worked there once
    • gst 12y ago
      Did you use an IDE via X11 forwarding? Or did you just use Vim / Emacs?
      • KerrickStaley 12y ago
        Usually NX or the like.
        • hueving 12y ago
          NX is not an IDE/editor.
        • divegeek 12y ago
          Chromoting is more common now. Same idea, though. (I'm a Googler)
    • Shebanator 12y ago
      That is generally true, but not completely so. A number of android engineers develop directly on Mac, and all iOS app developers do so because there isn't an alternative. And there are some weird engineers like me who mount their linux disks on their macs via nfs and only use their linux boxes to do command line work (builds, running servers, etc.).
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