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And users are significantly less likely to be doing Engineering/finance/etc... And more likely to be on Facebook during a college lecture.

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>And users are significantly less likely to be doing Engineering/finance/etc

Most of Silicon Valley are using macs as well; it’s pretty much the defacto platform for FAANG.

Bold claim considering it's for Front end work exclusively. I don't need to tell anyone here backend is all Linux, data is MS or Linux, embedded is never Mac, and (Physical) Engineering is MS.

Still front end FAANG is a tiny sliver of the population.

I mean it’s a not a claim. At Facebook (backend / production engineering) the vast majority of employees used the company provided MacBook Pros running macOS; not just front end. Similar story at Google.

I can’t speak for the rest of the country but most people even at the startups I’ve seen are using MacBook Pros. (FWIW I currently do embedded work on a mac)

Flyover country checking in. Non- or semi-technical bigcos of the sort with big IT departments who take most of a week to get you your laptop when you start, are almost all Windows but may tolerate some macOS. Technical bigcos are mixed Win/macOS, with the business side preferring Windows and the tech people all on Macs. Smaller tech companies are all Mac, pretty much universally. Every now and then you get the one weirdo whose laptop can never connect to the projector and whose screen sharing always fucks up on calls or takes 5 minutes to get their bluetooth headset working, because they're on Linux (disclaimer: many years ago, I've been that weirdo). I've only seen one shop that was mostly Linux + Windows with little or no Mac presence, and they were in hardware (drivers or proprietary libs for embedded devices can be hard to come by Macs).

I can firmly say this does not match the United States at all.

Occasionally you have a need for an iOS dev, but outside of that Mac's are not used professionally.

Arduino?

Every embedded job I've had was exclusively Linux and MS.

Even the Apple fanboys at work knew better and accepted the reality of the situation.

Currently doing tools for a f500 and there's not a Mac in the office.

I have a high degree of skepticism. 0 Macs out of 6 companies, yet you say they are abundant? Doubt.

>Arduino?

Largely our own SoC based on Nvidia's Jetson platform. I'm not sure what you mean by the "reality of the situation". macOS is UNIX based platform and, unless you are doing kernel work, I find that doing work on macOS is pretty much what you would expect if you were using a BSD based platform. I'm not sure what limitations there would be that you wouldn't find on Windows or even a separate distro. In fact I'd rather be working on an aarch64 MacBook if I was targeting an aarch64 cloud.

>I have a high degree of skepticism. 0 Macs out of 6 companies, yet you say they are abundant? Doubt.

I'm only speaking of Silicon Valley tech companies. I'm sure a F500 like Target or American Airlines wouldn't want to spend as much on developer hardware.

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