<p><pre><code> > Popular hardware:
> Keyboard, less than 50%
> iPhone 4, 60%
> Apple's incredibly overpriced cinema display, 75%
> Popular softeare:
> Chrome, only web browser listed, roughly in line with winxp
> winxp + win7 more than mac osx, yet most people using a mac?
> google-reader more than mail ?
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There is something incredibly wrong with the data used by this article.
This is just a list of basically interchangeable hardware/software products.
How much does it matter that certain demographics prefer macbook pro to macbook air or sublime to emacs?<p>The PG quote is talking about things like the WWW or bitmap displays, stuff that is fundamentally different technology, not just measuring the popularity of laptop brands.
I call sampling bias, if only because very few of the 'influential' developers I know use a Macintosh. I guess that the sample only includes 'hip' independents. Most people in a corporate setting do not choose their workstation. Then, anyone who hosts anything has a heavy dose of his Linux distribution of choice in the mix. Not defining 'influential' doesn't help with the site's credibility.