majority of people that have somewhat of a brain does not choose OS X.
And yet more and more PROFESSIONAL programmers/developers AND any SMART graphics and video artists / editors AND architects AND engineers AND DJs….. ALL have Macs……… hmmmmmm interesting theory there…
Because more "professionals" are professional in their field, not in computers. Also, because their schools had macs, their internships had macs, and their current boss wants macs. Why? Because it's a mac, and suits like it because they somehow conceived of the idea that macs "just work" and they save money on IT costs, which anyone with a brain can tell you is a complete lie. And because it sounds more impressive to dump $50,000 on new computers than $20,000, it lets everybody knows you're a serious company.
Oh, and to the root of the point… Find any IT guy, and ask them if they think the people they support have brains.
If you know anything about coding efficiency and lanuage specific api calls then you wouldn't use something like DragonFireSDK or that Titanium one or any of the such, you would develop for Mac IN Obj-C… those Java to Obj-C, C to Obj-C, C++ to Obj-C sdk/ides are REALLY bad and REALLY inefficient in coding… Sometimes to the point of the application is laggy or non-functioning due to bad coding… If you don't know how to code in a language, LEARN or don't code in that language at all!
End users wonder why some programs are s**t and why keep needing more and more ram in our computers, this is why… programmers get lazy and too complacent with their little 'hot fixes' or ways around doing something that in the end the program suffers, the end user suffers, and the poor guy in the retail store (if its sold that way) suffers too because he has to hear customers whine about it ALL day long (this is 5 year experience from before University talking here)!
Java to Obj-C? rofl. Why would you take a fast, readily multi-platform language and port it to OBJ-C?
Maybe if Macs weren't so terrible to program for, programs for them would be better? Just a thought.
Oh, an saying that developers use Macs… Well yeah, OBVIOUSLY you should use a computer on the platform you're developing for, that's a no-brainer. You're not gonna run to Bob down the hall, "Hey Bob, can I borrow your computer to compile and test my code on? Thanks!".
Which brings me to another reason developers use Macs: You can run a Windows VM on a Mac, you can't run a Mac VM on Windows. And that's not because Mac is better, that's because Apple has it in their head that software should be inseperably tied to hardware. Which anyone who's done even a tiny bit of professional IT work can tell you is a very bad policy that costs a lot of money for a whole lot of nothing, slows the process of recovering from system failure (Yes, Macs have those too.), as well as the process of deploying new systems.
