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by aidos 1955 days ago
15 years ago people could not believe I used Mac as a development machine. At work I wasn’t allowed to connect to the network and I was mocked endlessly by my colleagues.

I used to tell them “one day, one day you’ll see!” We have well and truly arrived.
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dagw 1955 days ago
15 years ago people could not believe I used Mac as a development machine.

Are you sure it wasn't more than 15 years ago? Because the way I recall it, after 10.2 was released most devs seemed to concede that Macs could at the very least serve as a passable way of getting Unix on a laptop, and once Xserve RAID came out even some greybreads where at least considering the idea of putting Apple hardware in their server room (even though very few eventually did).

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aidos 1955 days ago
Positive. This is in the UK. At that stage even younger less corporate developers couldn’t understand it at all.
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ABS 1955 days ago
counter-point: I started seeing more and more developers carrying (personal) Macs in London in 2005 in pubs and at events and by 2007 99% of those I knew were using a Mac.

By 2007 many had a Mac laptop provided by their empoyers (myself included).

Of course, agree it wasn't the absolute majority (it;'s not the absolute majority today either) but far from rare depending on your circles

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