4D Developers and Their Love of Macs
One of the striking things at 4D Summit this year was to look around and see the number of people using Mac laptops. The conference rooms looked like a sea of aluminum Macs - both PowerBook G4s and MacBook Pros. The only question was 15″ or 17″…
The preference for Macs could be seen in our web stats…
Take a look at the stats from our site for the two days that when we had the most people coming to read about 4D Summit, and compare that to the 2 days prior. The percentage of Safari users went up more than 10 fold, and Firefox usage went up as well.
These days with Parallels MacBook Pros do make a lot of sense for 4D programmers. But it’s still a bit amazing…
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November 2nd, 2007 at 6:05 pm
It’s not just 4D developers, it’s a trend in the overall techie community as well. When I was at WordCamp this summer there were Macs everywhere. I was a little embarrassed to be toting my Dell.
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:17 pm
When Dan and I went to Search Engine Strategies this past Spring it was dominated by PCs - Macs were maybe 10 or 15% of the compters (at most), and I don’t think any of the presenters used Macs…
I wouldn’t call SEO types “techies” - so maybe it is a techie thing…