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by coldtea 2793 days ago
>To be fair, how many developers with Macbooks are actually writing platform-specific code? I'm under the impression that most Macbook-wielding developers are web developers

There are of course the millions of iOS developers.

And besides that, in any conference, from C to Rust to C++ to Java, you'll see tons of Macbook-wielding developers, often the majority.

And when it comes to keynote speakers at conferences (as opposed to audience) the PC laptop is the exception as opposed to the norm...

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> There are of course the millions of iOS developers.

Which already is ARM and switching Mac OS to ARM could even be an advantage, so I don't see your point?

The point goes to the claim "I'm under the impression that most Macbook-wielding developers are web developers"...