[victorbstan]

I have a different theory. Mac sales have declined since the mass tech industry layoffs because most tech jobs would buy macs for their new employees. Since they aren’t hiring there’s no need to keep buying new Mac laptops. And mac pc sales outside of tech profession are very low.

[cannonpalms]

> And mac PC sales outside of tech profession are very low.

Can you share any source for this claim? It strikes me as improbable.

[ghaff]

If anything, I suspect individual purchases of Macs are pretty high. It's the routine corporate PC/laptop purchases where Windows dominates. I see a whole lot of Macs in coffee shops that are presumably not all techworkers co-working.

[Sohcahtoa82]

My anecdata (2 jobs at large Fortune 500 companies, 2 jobs at startups) suggests that large corporations run Windows, and it's the startups running Macs.

[d3w4s9]

You are way overestimating the layoffs' impact on Mac shipment. And sorry to inform you that many people laid off are not developers and more likely use Windows over Mac, and even among developers roughly half use Windows or Linux on a PC. (People here seem to think almost every developer uses Mac, but that is very very far from the truth.)

[simonbarker87]

A few thousand (or even ten thousand) tech workers getting laid off isn’t going to move the needle on Mac sales numbers, it’s not like they didn’t all go and get jobs elsewhere anyway.

[pjmlp]

Most European tech jobs don't buy Macs, unless you're located in rich countries from central and northern Europe.

Windows and Thinkpad/Dell running Linux, on the others.

Otherwise it is mostly for iDevices app development.

[amelius]

If these people are unemployed (which I doubt), they will buy a new laptop to stay relevant.