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[JumpCrisscross]

> For who?

Anyone wanting to make money. The wealthy and influential predominantly use Macs.

[notreallytrue → JumpCrisscross]

That's a load of bullshit

[JumpCrisscross → notreallytrue]

> That's a load of bullshit

Nope [1].

[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24771/w247... Search “Apple”

[notreallytrue → JumpCrisscross]

United States are a disfunctional country, we already knew

[apozem → notreallytrue]

The data bears this out - maps of Apple product use match wealthy areas.

https://www.businessinsider.com/android-is-for-poor-people-m...

I don’t know why it would be implausible that wealthy people use expensive products aimed at the high end of the market.

[notreallytrue → apozem]

USA is only 5% of the world population what happens there is vastly insignificant outside of it.

Android is on 75% of European phones, the CEO of the fortune 500 company I work for uses an Android phone, same goes for the vast majority of the management there, many highly influencial politics own Android phones, that's simply a spurious correlation

https://tylervigen.com/old-version.html

[romanoderoma → JumpCrisscross]

Proof?

I have never seen a Mac in a Bank, an Insurance or a financial institution

[ashtonkem → romanoderoma]

I was issued a MBP when I worked in finance.

[romanoderoma → ashtonkem]

That doesn't prove that influencial people mainly use Macs.

It's probably an US thing, where Apple has an higher market penetration.

With a global 8% is highly improbable that most wealthy and influential people use Macs.

Also, for 4 billion people in the world (China, India and most of Africa) the most used operating system is Android.

[ashtonkem → romanoderoma]

I didn’t assert that. I’m responding to this:

> I have never seen a Mac in a Bank, an Insurance or a financial institution

I worked in a financial institution, all the programmers were issued a MBP.