@thefwguy My thoughts precisely. Mastodon, especially a techy subset of it, is likely not remotely representative of the larger population.
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Before the 12" MacBook, before the 11" MacBook Air, there was the 9" ASUS Eee PC hackintosh, and there were a number of new-to-macOS developers in our community who learned how to develop for iPhone on this very setup, and started their careers from it.@stroughtonsmith I suspect that a significant chunk of the strength of both Apple’s dev and user bases are owed to the hackintosh scene. More than Apple would ever dare to admit.
For example a lot of the more visible participants were pro audio people who had outgrown their old cheese grater towers but weren’t adequately served by the trash can Mac Pro. That’s a bunch of people who would’ve otherwise jumped ship.