In fact, I was in a conference a couple of weeks back and people were mocked for using Windows and especially Linux. Devs were asking others to get a 'real' OS. Practically 90% of the conference had Macs.
Mocking people for using Windows, Linux or whatever is a childish/youngish thing to do. Most people grow out of that phase, but you gotta love the young programmers coming up. Apple has been pretty clever about exploiting the tribal nature of these (mostly) young men.
Apple has been pretty clever about exploiting a lot of scary things in human nature! ...and yeah, we all "loved" to see those things at their best. That's something over which I have a hard time to get over, even now.
Windows can't open a raw socket. I find that really irks me for some reason. Overall, I find Windows superior after using Macs for a couple of years. The UI of Windows feels much better for getting things done, there's more third party software, and Apple's software engineering is amateurish compared to Microsoft. But then I remember, you can't open a raw socket. I'm also steeped in Linux from the olden days, and the win32 meets Linux ports get to be a bit of a pain... cygwin path conventions, DOS path conventions, emacs port path conventions... use a backslash here, forward slash there.. that stuff can get to be a serious pain if you bring a lot of UNIX style stuff to your Windows work. Even though OS X doesn't hold a candle to Debian for well-packaged open-source software, big plus marks for not hitting this UNIX-meets-Windows compatibility nightmare.
90% of your peers using a Mac is a good reason to use a Mac. But I have to admit people feeling superior for using a Mac is ridiculous.
The raw socket thing is a bit annoying, but it only applies to TCP/UDP and you can bypass the restrictions with winpcap. Is it really a problem in practice?
In fact, I was in a conference a couple of weeks back and people were mocked for using Windows and especially Linux. Devs were asking others to get a 'real' OS. Practically 90% of the conference had Macs.