Over on Fred Wilson’s blog he asked for thoughts on if Mac and PC user read blogs differently. I do think that over the last few years, Macs have moved from the platform for educators to the platform for developers. And. Developers are early adopters.
If I’ve noticed one trend, Ruby/Rails engineers prefer Macs. It’s easy to set the Ruby on Rails development environment on a Mac and Macs double nicely as an everyday machine. This may go all the way back to when Mac chose to use a Linux Kernel and how well Macs work with open source software. A great strategic move in my opinion.
I may be taking a leap here, but Macs have created an everyday platform that services developers well. Those developers are early adopters of new services - My best guess as to why more Mac users read blogs from twitter than PC Users. Like crossing the chasm, these are the users that form the beach head for mass adoption. I suspect as these new services become more mainstream that usage will reflect the marketshare of the OS over time as it relates the usage of any service/blog.
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