On: iOS6 breaks long polling

[taligent]

>Most web developers use a windows or linux machine to develop and a physical device to test.

Maybe I am living in a bubble but every single web developer I have ever met used a Mac. Why ? Because it is the only platform that has Photoshop + a UNIX shell.

[recursive → taligent]

I am a web developer, and I've never used photoshop. I rarely touch graphics at all. My sense is that this is true for most or at least many web developers in general.

[hack_edu → taligent]

Me as well, but this too strikes me as a part of the Valley bubble.

[semanticist → hack_edu]

It's not - Macs are vastly over-represented in Edinburgh, and in London too.

There's more Macs at the Edinburgh Ruby user group meeting than at the Mac user group meeting!

[Anderkent → taligent]

Not every web developer is a designer.

Also, cygwin.

[jrajav → Anderkent]

MSYS is much more workable than Cygwin, but it's still not a panacea. More of a placebo really.

[taligent → Anderkent]

But most web designers would be slicing PSDs at some point, right ?

And Cygwin is a joke. Dealing with the page separator differences alone would make it unbearable.

[moreati → taligent]

I believe Aderkent meant that many web developers who are not designers (e.g. me) have no need of Photoshop - so we don't use a Mac.

[esolyt → moreati]

By the way, Gimp can open psd files. I'm not sure it works perfect though.