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by wscp-dev 1000 days ago
I think that all came down to the fact that macs were popular with a certain demographic, and that demographic didn't include many programmers.

I think I will use shortcuts though, it seems like a nifty gui automation tool.

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False; a lot of programmers were interested in the Mac. The Mac had a vibrant developer community for a long time, and the early Mac had a lot of developer tools. It started to die when Windows 3.1 made it viable to ship (ugly) graphical apps on PCs, and it really withered when Windows 95 came out and Apple management at the time basically shrugged. (Windows 95 sucked ass, but consumers were convinced it was a cheap Mac alternative.)