>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.
Most of Silicon Valley are using macs as well; it’s pretty much the defacto platform for FAANG.
Still front end FAANG is a tiny sliver of the population.
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)
Occasionally you have a need for an iOS dev, but outside of that Mac's are not used professionally.
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.
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.