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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by flurdy on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:50AM (#13930160)
As you say that depends on income. Based on location and whom you mix with. And perhaps some culture bias/patterns but that is my just guessing.

Macs have dominated in the areas I have worked in for the past 6 years. I would say in the companies, hands-on meetups and conferences I been to in London and across Scandinavia: 75% use macbooks, then perhaps 15% dell xps with ubuntu and 10% mix of lenovo, MS surface etc.

Though I think this split will change with the recoil of the new touch bar macs.

(Again this is just from my smaller demographic of location and people.)

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by srssays on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @08:48AM (#13930436)
London is special because there are a lot of Apple stores here (I count 7). That's more than many European countries have.

The calculus of owning a Mac changes drastically if you live near an Apple store. If my Mac has a problem, I can book an appointment at the Apple store, real person will try to fix it, and I can have it back ASAP. The customer service is half the price.

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @08:57AM (#13930496)
> London is special because there are a lot of Apple stores here (I count 7). That's more than many European countries have.

Probably because London has more people than most European countries.

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by erelde on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @09:31AM (#13930710)
Whaa ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...

Yep, it's almost true. London 8.5M. If you count all 50 "countries" (some are a joke though) it ranks between the 21st and 22nd.

Though in my city (Paris 11M, I think), similarly sized, there's only 2 Apple stores.

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by flurdy on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @09:52AM (#13930852)
If you go by metropolitan area London(13M) and Paris(12M) would be 13th and 14th the country population list.

Ref:[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_...]

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by erelde on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @10:02AM (#13930937)
The point isn't that though. Very similar cities have a very different number of Apple stores.

Paris and London are 500km apart, a couple hours of train or plane away from each other, both capital cities, both have ~10ยจ7 people.

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by OJFord on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @10:03AM (#13930943)
> "countries" (some are a joke though)

Which? Vatican City is fairly extraordinary, granted, but I think 'a joke' is unfair...

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