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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by chrisseaton on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:28AM (#23599428)
When I go to Ruby conferences, Java conferences, academic conferences, whatever, in Europe, everyone - almost literally everyone - is on a Macintosh, just as in the US.
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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by tpush on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:08AM (#23599737)
Most people don’t go to conferences.
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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by ChuckNorris89 on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:39AM (#23600044)
Ruby conference goers don't represent all the SW devs of Europe :)
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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by chrisseaton on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:57AM (#23600224)
Why do you think not?

And why not Java developers?

They seem pretty polar opposite in terms of culture, but all still turn up using a Macintosh.

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by ChuckNorris89 on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:21AM (#23600458)
Because every conference is its own bubble of enthusiasts and SW engineering is a lot more diverse than Ruby, from C++ kernel devs to Firmware C and ASM devs.

Even the famous FailOverflow said in one of his videos he only bought a Mac since he saw that at conferences everyone had Macs so he thought that must mean they're the best machines.

Anecdotally, I've interviewed at over 12 companies in my life and only one of those issues Mac to its employees the rest were windows/Linux.

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