Recent "demographic" info for my blog: a lot of Apple and Google devices; even w/o mobile, more Apple than MS; Edge =~ Opera.pic.twitter.com/ps7fqhEABu
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TouchMe gesture studio was the killer app for me
This is minority opinion, but the thing that I don't understand is why so many devs use macs. I can understand windows because...
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if you develop on windows, it makes sense to use windows, and windows still dominates the desktop market and ∴ the desktop software market
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plus, people who play non-console games usually keep a windows machine around
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But when the production environment is linux, I find it super annoying to use a mac, where the debugging/profiling toolchain is different
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even when I'm not doing low-level stuff, I often want to strace something, or use a ptrace thing that only exists on linux
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And ofc. there's a way to do the same thing on a mac, but you end up having to learn an entire parallel toolchain
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Part of the answer: company-issued laptops tend towards macs because IT departments find them easier to administer. (eg wrt malware,support)
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My experience: more uniform. Everyone on Mac has similar laptops and the exact same OS, which makes working together easier.
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I switched from vim to vscode because other devs couldn't pair on my computer, too weird a vimrc. customizing my os would prob be worse
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