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Comment by doctorpangloss | Hacker News Reader

Apple doesn't need telemetry to send emails about their favorite coding AI to the 2 Xcode users

Off by about 33,999,998 users, but still a decent dunk.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/06/apple-now-has-ove...

34 million developers? That number doesn't even pass a basic sniff test. Are there 34 million people that have Xcode installed? That I can believe.

If my experience is anything to go by - a good proportion of this will be people accidentally double clicking a .md (or other random text suffix), and cursing whilst they wait for XCode to slowly load enough that they can quit it and open the file in a proper lightweight editor..

I feel like the #1 reason to install Xcode is to get Git working on macOS. Yours is probably #2. I wouldn't bet money on iOS/macOS development sitting at #3.

Command Line Tools for Xcode is a separate smaller package than the full graphical Xcode tho: `xcode-select --install`

Yep, I open Xcode several times per year, but haven't done it on purpose since... uh, 2014 or so?

> At Apple's World Wide Developer Conference on Monday, Tim Cook mentioned that there are now 34 million registered developers with the company's platform.

I think that means either:

  * they have revenues of $3.4b/year just from the $100 annual fees, or
  * some decent percentage of people have signed up for a free developer account and then never done anything with it (like me)

We found one of the users!

Not currently, but yes my full time job has involved xcode many times.

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