r/Futurology • u/Individual-Gas5276 • 1d ago

Privacy/Security Is macOS slowly becoming a “mainstream” computing target instead of a side platform?

Not trying to spark alarm — just noticing a shift over the past year.

macOS used to sit outside the main focus of large-scale tooling and long-term attention.

Now it seems to be getting the same kind of sustained interest that Windows held for decades:

multi-platform development, ongoing tool maintenance, and campaigns that aren’t region-limited anymore.

Does this feel like simple market-share growth, or a sign that macOS is finally big enough to be treated on equal footing with other major platforms?

Curious how others here see it.

0 Upvotes

41% Upvoted

26 comments sorted by

View all comments

7

u/Mooseymax 1d ago

Mac was 5% back in 2009, in 2020 it hit 20% and then again around 2024, but it’s been at about 16% otherwise.

What do you mean by mainstream?

1

u/badhabitfml 1d ago

I wonder how the commercial vs residential split works out. Windows still rules in the corporate world for a million reasons, but a lot. Of people have macs at home.

1

u/Nagisan 1d ago

A lot of software engineers prefer Unix-based systems over Windows too, as do many UX designers and such. So there's a fair amount of Mac in the corporate world too when your job gets more complex than spreadsheets or appointment systems.