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Originally posted by Adonis
You have provided ZERO data as to your claims about what developers are using. Google isn't some hipster company. I've worked for old as heck companies that use macs exclusively for their development environments.
The sites I've worked on get literally billions of hits each month. I've also worked at Billboard which is of interest here and despite their crappy drupal stack they are using what Macs almost exclusively. It's not about affording anything. It's about being able to mimic the environment your code will live on adequately and the speed of development. Time is money. If you can't operate on a command line at the companies I work for you can't even get in the door. Lets face it the maintenance costs associated with windows is an expensive business proposition. Mac has taken over the Software world because it is a *nix environment backed by Apple. They are inexpensive to support once an initial purchase is made particularly in the US.
Are there developers who develop on Windows boxes? Sure. Not at the biggest names in the tech and media industries in the world. I only know this because I've worked at these places myself. It didn't used to be that way 5 years ago.
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First off no site gets billions of hits a month; (December 2014) Google ~1.1B unique monthly visitors, YouTube and Facebook ~1B, then it falls off with Yahoo and Amazon 750m-500m. Look up the stats, I’m not here to do it for you.
I’m not sure what you command line comment is about. What developer can’t use a command line and at the same time why would I be using it so much when I have a perfectly good studio that does 99% of that for them.
I can’t argue with your experiences because that is what you have encountered at the biggest names in the tech and media industries in the world but that is not the entire world not even close. You are thinking in a small box, step out of it. I have worked for 2 fortune 100 companies that would dwarf all the media companies combined and they are MS shops. Sure they have some Macs but they also have mainframes, should we call them big iron shops instead? Now look at the small business, you can toss out the fortune 100s and tech giants because these small business are the real drivers.
You actually think it’s cheaper and easier for a small business to setup and maintain a *nix shop with mac vs Windows? Then why are 75% of the Operating Systems installed Windows? Because in the long run it’s cheaper for them.
Also, so you know, I have a Mac and I am an iOS developer as well, I just mostly end up doing backend coding, WCF web services, Database design and coding since I hold DBAs in SQL Server and Oracle but I am fully versed in HTML 5, CSS3 and know that any webdev should have no problem making a website work exactly the same across any of today’s modern browsers.
In Closing IE11 is better than Chrome but not by much. The new IE with win10 makes it a no brainer. People need to stop living in the past with IE8 and realize that 11 and beyond are new browsers.