[vacri]

If the most tech centered place in the world all use iphones

It's a status signaller. It's like the Macbook Pro. From your reasoning, OSX must be the best OS out there given its popularity in SV, yet the grunt work for the vast majority of SV companies is done by linux - the stuff on the servers, making their money. Horses for courses, there is no One True OS.

It's also a massive overgeneralisation to say that the population of SV are essentially experts in phone design and UX. And if you think that the SV engineer is immune to fashion trends by dint of 'being professional', you'd be wrong. Witness the current fad of flat design, for example.

Then there's people like me, who see the 'better experience' as including things outside the phone. Supporting Apple supports their business model which suffocates open source and prevents tinkering. That's a worse experience for me.

[sukilot]

You seem to be insinuating that Linux on a laptop is as good as Linux on a server, but there is no way you actually believe that.

Apple makes the only usable laptop OS these days (now that Windows 7 gave way to iOWondows)

[vacri]

That's something you're projecting onto me - I put in the line "Horses for courses, there is no One True OS" specifically to avoid that.

Edit: I also disagree with the comment that OSX is the only usable laptop OS. Linux does require more maintenance overhead, but it's perfectly usable. At my last workplace there were plenty of people complaining about their OSX laptops, both in terms of various problems, and also that their older machines were slowing to the point of uselessness.

Like I said, horses for courses.

[cozzyd]

What's wrong with Linux on a properly supported laptop? (OS X also sucks on improperly supported laptops... much worse than Linux, in fact). I find GNOME 3, in particular, much more productive on a laptop than OS X.

[acchow]

I have a number of friends who swore by linux but then never looked back once they got macbooks.

Also, Linus Torvalds uses OS X on his macbook air.

[cozzyd]

I don't doubt your anectodes, but the idea that Linus uses OS X on his macbook air is hilarious (according to what he's said, he's a Fedora user, and has retired his MBA in favor of a Pixel).

[vacri]

I work with one person who went linux -> OSX and two that went OSX -> linux. All seem very happy.

It's almost like OSX isn't the One True OS, and that different people have different preferences.

[jmccree]

I went from OSX to Ubuntu a few years back and it's been the most overall enjoyable and productive desktop/laptop OS experience I've had.