Mac’s share falls to five-year low
I keeping hearing the narrative from this crowd that the MBP is on its way out of being in vogue for developers, but I don&#x27;t buy it at all.<p>First of all, this is market share up to the release of the new MBP. It&#x27;s not surprising that their market share has been slipping given that up to this point they haven&#x27;t released a significant update to the MBP since 2013.<p>But getting to the point, the Mac ecosystem is now ingrained into open source development. Believe me I used to use a PC not too long ago and nothing would work because OS software is designed to run on top of a  NIX environment. I recently had to go through this exercise with a colleague who was in denial. But over time, it ends up the same: software built to run on Linux servers runs best under an environment that is designed more like Linux. He now owns a MBP.<p>So Windows is out (for non .NET devs). That leaves us with what, Linux itself as the OS? Anyone who suggests doing this either hasn&#x27;t done it before or has way too much time on their hands. I use macOS because I don&#x27;t have time to hunt for drivers, trying to understand an obscure error discussed in a long forum thread or having all my software no longer work just because I updated a package. I&#x27;ve already tried that twice once with Gentoo and then with Ubuntu years later hoping it would be different. I know plenty of others who have as well. Ultimately we have jobs and we need to debug our own software.<p>Which brings us back to the Mac. I fully expect this release to be their Windows 8 moment, a beta event from which they will recover from given time for hardware to catch up. Not every release can be a stellar event. Give it time.