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@calmyourtities this is a very weak argument.

@ctwx why

@calmyourtities
Obviously not him, but Android is much more popular than iOS. Also it's a cherry picking fallacy ;)

@RiderExMachina yes, but iOS users have more money to spend *grins evily*

@calmyourtities
No verifiable data and I'm fairly certain that's not true from what data there are.

@RiderExMachina not data, logic. Apple products are more expensive, people with more money to spend buy expensive things, and more things.

@calmyourtities
Credit cards exist. "Buying" a phone for 1¢ through contracts exist. Getting a phone through your business is a thing. Just because someone owns an apple product does not mean they have more money to spend.

@RiderExMachina fine, data, search results from a simple Google search:
http://fortune.com/2014/06/...
https://amp.businessinsider.com/ios...
http://androidauthority.com/new-rep...
http://insights.dice.com/2017/05/...

@calmyourtities
Those are pretty damning.

I think there are other factors that contribute to that, though. Without trying to move the goalposts, I think that Android users are more thrifty with their money, and so will purchase the cheaper phone and then use the free apps, purchasing only if necessary.

With iPhone users, a good majority of them are business people, so they get the phone from their work and thus they can spend more on the App Store due to not having that initial $800 purchase.

Also, kids like to spend money within games to purchase the upgrades, which I'm sure is a contributing factor (or at least it was a few years ago).

I do especially find it odd because Linux users are generally more generous with their giving (during Humble Bundles Linux users often gave bigger donations than the Windows and Mac users combined). To be completely fair though, the Humble Bundle is currently the only benchmark I have for this without trolling through OSSs' donation lists.

@calmyourtities @RiderExMachina let's not forget that most modern Android phones costs as much as iPhones

@Dacexi not true, iPhones generally cost as much as the high end androids
@RiderExMachina im an android dev (well, I've made some apps), and I have an iPhone. More young people are getting iPhones, it just seems like the way to go in my opinion, although fuck apple i aint putting up $5000 for a mac to develop an app, plus I went for android.

@calmyourtities just saying. I personally use a Nexus 5 (cheap af) but there are at least as many high end Android phones out there as iPhones.

@Dacexi it's mostly just Samsung.

@calmyourtities yeah I know. But there are a ton of them.

without community osx would be nothing, the same can't be said about linux, because for start linux is originally about excahnge, community, this comming from a user who use OSX, Apple is not giving anything for developer, just think about SMB protocole that still not working, apple you are a big shit with a lot of money spent on advertising

@ctwx actually, it isn't. If the core business of the company is developing iOS app, then that is not a weak argument.

Only if I can use it on something that is not overly expensive and vastly inferir compared to similarly priced alternatives.

In my current job I'm given a Mac only and so far I'm able to survive , in my previous jobs I was given either windows only or both.
As long as you get the job done who care, but if that advice was for your personal computer then ya there can be an argument as to why are you getting a PC in the first place, what are you wanting to achieve with that PC then decide which os to get

I'll never use a Mac, specially with that shitty politic, pretty much the same for Windows but they started to learn (and games <3).