>Mac is kind of not there in the developer community, unless you're talking about shops that deal primarily in the iOS space.
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...
MacBook Pros are extremely popular with certain segments of developers. But we (typically) need a quad-core and 16Gb of ram, not a 28-core and 384GB ram and three graphics cards.
Re:The Mac “Pro”
by tonyedgecombe on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:54AM
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From https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...
Windows: 47.5% macOS: 26.8% Linux: 25.6%
Re:The Mac “Pro”
by pertymcpert on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:09AM
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I'm sorry, what? That's completely false.
Re:The Mac “Pro”
by StuffedParrot on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:56AM
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> Mac is kind of not there in the developer community, unless you're talking about shops that deal primarily in the iOS space.
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.
Re:The Mac “Pro”
by brokensegue on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:01PM
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This is not my experience.
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.