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0 pointssamatman5y ago0 comments

I don't have it reversed at all, mobile applications are just one sector of software development, and not a very large one.

There are entire industries (healthcare, to name but one), where Windows is simply a given, and all development targets that platform.

It's true that Macs are a requirement for iOS development, I was referring more to the observed fact that most devs in SF doing "cloud" whatever use a Mac, probably around 80%.

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hu35y ago· 2 in thread

> SF doing "cloud" whatever use a Mac, probably around 80%.

A specific use case in a specifc place of the globe is your definition of "dominant"?

I knew HN was a bubble but this is hilarious.

Imagine considering macOS dominant because it's trendy in SF.

samatmanOP5y ago

No.

It's my definition of a "sector", which you would know, if you had read my words with more care and sympathy.

hu35y ago

The whole thread is about developer marketshare. This is how it started: "Most developers I know use already a mac."

I'm sorry but your whole "granularity" tangent makes no sense.

wayneftw5y ago

> most devs in SF doing "cloud" whatever use a Mac, probably around 80%.

They're just victims of group think, advertising, peer pressure or status signalling. Everywhere else in the world, 80% of people doing "cloud" whatever aren't using a Mac.

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