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diezge | 10 years ago

> What, every developer? You really live in a bubble - get out and meet more.

Not all of them run OS X, but yep - the devices are reliable, last for a very long time and do the job well.

> Yeah, because there's absolutely no status signalling with Apple products.

Most people I know with iPhones are just regular people. I used to be an Android user (and will never hate on it) but most Western tech people with them are like the poster above - smug with an unfounded sense of superiority.

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vacri|10 years ago

Keep on changing your tune. Every developer you know uses a macbook pro because they don't want to set up a linux distro, but not all of those macbook pros are running OSX? What are the non-OSX macbook pros running? ^BSD? Just as much fiddling as linux. Windows? Now that is a rare creature.

> most [broad demographic] are [negative attribute]

Sure they are. At least the GP openly recognises that they might be projecting.

dagw|10 years ago

Windows? Now that is a rare creature.

Not in my experience. At most .Net/Windows dev events I've been to Macbooks running windows are hardly uncommon.

diezge|10 years ago

> Keep on changing your tune. Every developer you know uses a macbook pro because they don't want to set up a linux distro, but not all of those macbook pros are running OSX?

That's reaching - you know full well I wasn't talking about distros like Ubuntu, hence the 'no one has heard of' part.

> Sure they are. At least the GP openly recognises that they might be projecting.

Projecting their l33tness, which literally no one cares about or wants to here. Simplicity is better, there is nothing inferior about something being simple.