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0 pointswayneftw5y ago0 comments

There has never, ever, ever been a time where most developers bought Macs. Ever.

The vast majority of software developers have always been on Windows. This is true worldwide and in the US. Only in certain fields and places like Silicon Valley do developers on Macs outnumber those on Windows.

I can link some numbers for you but they are findable. The stackoverflow developer survey shows it year after year.

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wayneftwOP5y ago

As a matter of fact, you can see here [0] that 72.4% of the 57k developers who took the survey primarily use Windows or Linux over a Mac. This is certainly in line with general desktop OS market share statistics [1] showing that Macs are only used by about 17% of the general population world wide with Windows taking the lion's share.

Perhaps I've offended someones feelings with these statistics. Sorry, I can't apologize for facts though.

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-de...

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

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