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> That simply is not true. Most of the people that likes commodities of UNIX, nice UI and long battery life in combination with nice hardware uses Macs. Even people who do not do any iOS development.

Citation needed. Some people like the mac UI sure, but there are people who hate it too. People who use a mac only because they have to to develop for iOS or OSX certainly do exist.

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I used OS X for a while. The MBP was provided to me by my employer.

I got tired of it in about one year. Now the laptop, which I barely use (my desktop runs circles around it), is running a Linux distribution. More comfortable UI, comparably solid, (usually) seamless software upgrades and better management, more customizable, etc.

I was indeed one.

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