One of my coworkers was given a Mac laptop by IT, not sure why. He uses it to RDP into his Windows desktop. I've told him he should probably... fix that, but he says he's happy with his workflow, and who am I to judge. It's also helped us catch at least one RDP related bug in our software, which is nice.
Apple is rightfully very targeted towards the content creation crowd. It's a very spendy bread and butter to carry around in your pocket.
Not in the West. Go to any conference, Java, Rails, JS, Rust, etc, and the share of Mac is widely more than its average market share (like 40% vs 5-10% of the overall market).
And when it comes to presenters and "star devs" it's way too much Mac share...
Windows: 47.5% macOS: 26.8% Linux: 25.6%
This is certainly cultural. I’ve worked in four different states for four different developer driven companies and they were all mac dominated. Macs are certainly “there” in the developer community.
Sorry, what? I haven't seen a shred of marketing material aiming the new Mac Pro at programmers. Everything about it - including every piece of software shown onscreen in a render - screams Hollywood, which by the author's own admission, "wouldn't bat an eyelid at paying high 5 figure sums for hardware".
> even the 1.5TBs a maxed out Mac Pro can handle
The max is currently 4.0TB, with an 8.0TB option on the way. Not sure where 1.5 came from.
The value proposition on the baseline model is definitely weird, especially how it compares to Apple's own iMac, but I think it's an extreme case for a machine that's really intended to be specced-up. And most of the article was spent laying out, in detail, just how bad of a deal that anomalous configuration is, instead of discussing the more realistic ones.