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OSX only in academia or media?! We probably live in different multiverse universes. Where I am, OSX has really become the OS of choice by people doing tech wor

OSX only in academia or media?! We probably live in different multiverse universes. Where I am, OSX has really become the OS of choice by people doing tech work in industry/enterprise. I see glowing apples everywhere. The Apple in academia, media meme feels like a Rick Astley video on repeat decade after decade.

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PhantomGremlin 12y ago
OSX is popular in the tech industry despite Apple, not because of Apple. Microsoft knows how to support businesses, Apple ... not so much.
- ma2rten 12y ago
  I see what you mean, but on the other hand Apple does have a big advantage, because their system is so homogenous. It's every easy for IT to support a fleet of macbooks.
  - kjs3 12y ago
    You have very, very clearly never tried to support a fleet of macbooks in a corporate IT environment.
pjmlp 12y ago
Where I am, OS X is on those shinny devices carried around by product managers and upper management. Everyone else is on Windows with UNIX boxes available as servers.
- fit2rule 12y ago
  The sexy OSX-running hardware can also be set up just fine, and quite comfortably, as a Windows device. The folks I see toting OSX machines are mostly using it as a shell for their Windows VM's. Myself, I've got a 50/50 split between OSX and Linux. It works okay to switch between the systems, of course KISS principle applies ..
  - pjmlp 12y ago
    I know, one just needs to attend a Games Developer Conference to see Windows being used instead of Mac OS X. Still, I am yet to work on a company that allows buying Apple hardware instead of Thinkpads to end up installing Windows on it.
rat87 12y ago
It's really popular with ruby community not only rails, and from there I think it spread somewhat to node but I outside those I think linux is a lot more popular.