> 90%+ of the engineers at Big Tech and the technorati startups

The US 1s? Is that why we have Deepseek and then other non-US open source LLMs catching up rapidly?

World view please. The developer community is not US only.

You’ll see a lot of MacBooks in Beijing’s zhongguangcun where all the tech companies are, but they also have a lot of students there as well, so who knows. You need to go out to the suburbs where Lenovo has offices to stop seeing them. I know Apple is common in Western Europe having lived there for two years (but that was 20 years ago, I lived in China for 9 years after that).

It wouldn’t surprise me if the deepseek people were primarily using Mac’s. Maybe Alibaba might be using PCs? I’m not sure.