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		duped on March 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A brief reflection on Mac software stagnation They're great laptops. How many of those developers are targeting MacOS though? iOS has 50% market share in the US. It makes sense why Uber and Twitter (a pittance of desktop users) buys them - they have to.

saagarjha on March 8, 2022 [–]

Macs are basically standard developer hardware at well funded tech companies, for all sorts of engineers besides just iOS teams.

pjmlp on March 9, 2022 | [–]

Only if you happen to live in the US or countries with similar salary levels and writing UNIX software or iOS/iPad/watchOS is all that those "developers" care about.

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