1. Developers who work for many companies, are supplied with Macs from said companies because they are good hardware with good support. Also it is a prestige item that shows that the company thinks highly of their developer.
2. Also if these developers have web development or internet development as part of their work, their company will absolutely want a machine they can legally run OSX on, which is only a Mac, because they absolutely need to test on Safari and also the various IOS emulators, that are much easier to get on OSX. Macs are literally the only machines one can really and unambiguously legally and easily run the latest OSX, Windows and Linux, and Android emulators are easily available cross platform.
3. People tend to buy similar stuff to what they get at work, because less hassle, and they also have experience with both software and hardware.
So one problem is actually Apples ant-competitive practice of bundling, and limiting the legality of usage of virtual machines.
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Date: 2014-05-24 04:10 pm (UTC)2. Also if these developers have web development or internet development as part of their work, their company will absolutely want a machine they can legally run OSX on, which is only a Mac, because they absolutely need to test on Safari and also the various IOS emulators, that are much easier to get on OSX. Macs are literally the only machines one can really and unambiguously legally and easily run the latest OSX, Windows and Linux, and Android emulators are easily available cross platform.
3. People tend to buy similar stuff to what they get at work, because less hassle, and they also have experience with both software and hardware.
So one problem is actually Apples ant-competitive practice of bundling, and limiting the legality of usage of virtual machines.