you lost me on hamburger! - sorry! :) But yeah ALL people i have met use macs. now, am going to go for some fresh ground beef.
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM, seanlynch <sean.seanly...@gmail.com> wrote: > " Macs are probably 10 percent of the computer market" > > That would be the computer user market, not the computer professional > market. > > Most professionals in any field use equipment that is different than > home users. Professional drivers, professional filmmakers, > professional chefs. > > Being the most popular in the consumer market does not make an item > the best for a particular task. > Think of the best hamburger you ever ate. One that just thinking about > it makes your mouth water. > > Did you think about a McDonald's plain hamburger? > > Why not? McDonald's hamburgers are clearly the leaders in the market > place. They sell more than any other brand of hamburger. They are > adequate nutritionally and are reasonably priced. > > Mac buyers spend all that extra money an pure fresh ground beef on > artisan baked rolls with fresh trimmings. > Linux users grill their own at home. > > On Dec 4, 1:33 pm, Jim Knowlton <jknowlton...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am a QA engineer who works in Ruby quite a bit, and I've never been > > able to figure out...why is there a disproportionately large > > contingent of Mac users among Ruby developers? Macs are probably 10 > > percent of the computer market, but every time I go to a Ruby > > conference, probably 80 percent of the laptops there are Macs. > > > > Any thoughts? > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.