EDIT: I know people who spend more than that on Starbucks each month.
- 9 € / month ( Google Play Music)
- 3 € / month ( Netflix shared with 3 other people)
- 3€ / month for Google Apps ( actually, this is business... But i also use the mail for private use..)
= 15 € / month.
If i'm not mistaking, you're OS X device costs you 4 times more every month then the sum of every online webservice i use.
( this is another comparison than yours.. Some people just throw out money, others don't :) . Earning a lot of money doesn't automaticly mean you have to waste all of it )
Well.. you need something to run those things on
Is that any better? ;)
It turns out I spend far more on internet access than I do on hardware, and I wouldn't have thought that to be the case.
I think that's more than worth it. Why the hell haven't I bought a backup machine yet just in case this one breaks?
Because you're leveraging credit in the event of a failure! No need to let equipment languish when you can simply pop into the store!
Also because it has so far only died about once every two years. Every time due to human error (spilled things). I can afford a two day outage every two years :)
And mind you that just two years ago, I had the same kind of reaction to that sort of comment. It's not that hard to step up a few pay grades as an engineer these days.
And no, not on Windows because in my experience it's the most terrible system for developers. Might've improved in the last 15 years.
And no, not on linux. In my experience it requires constant tinkering with the system. According to my friends still on linux, this hasn't changed in the last 3 years.
So yeah, I guess only mac is left. Which often still requires too much tinkering, but feels like less than linux. And I honestly haven't used windows in earnest in 15 years so hard to say.
Even phased like that that is a lot of money.