Coincidentally, I've never met a Microsoft/Windows fanboy, but rarely do I meet a Mac owner who isn't. I don't really understand the psychological devotion to a corporation/product, but I get the sense that it comes from either a feeling of elitism, living vicariously, or an inferiority complex (not sure which).
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Apple market cap is 500 billion (billion with a "B" junior) higher than Microsoft's. I know a lot of you fanboys still think it's the 90's and you haven't adjusted to the new reality. The Mac's market share continues to grow, as Windows becomes the stagnant old man of tech. Ignoring that base is not wise. Having Macs in an enterprise environment, once relegated to marketing departments, is no longer an issue. Younger CEOs insist on using a Mac now. I watched this change within more than one large company of the last few years. If you had told me this 20 years ago, I would have laughed. The schools are even more predominately Apple than they even have been at any point in the past. Kids that grow up using iPads will buy Macs later in life. Nothing is going to save Windows at this point. They are too stuck in the traditional Wintel desktop model, which is slowly dying. Their future heavily rests on their cloud services, which are becoming less and less reliant on Windows. That does not bode well for the continued high market share of Windows.
Development tools aren't what they used to be in the 90's either. Cross platform development is relatively easy, especially with tools like Xojo, which can have one code base and spit out native binaries for Mac, Linux, and Windows.
To sum it up, it's not 1997 anymore, Virginia. It's more than fair for customers to ask about Mac native versions. They may not get it, but it's not absurd to ask.
Sorry, I was just going by the last 4 quarter's market share numbers (it may not be the 90's anymore, but it is still 2020). If you develop on mobile, then iOS is definitely the platform to do it on, albeit Android would have a good argument. Actually, in FY 2019 Apple's Mac sales only generated 9.8% of their total revenue.
Additionally, if you research desktop market share, Windows is 73.2% with OS X a distant second at 16.5% over the last 12 months. Bottom line is that Microsoft still dominates the professional business world outside of specific verticals.
To your cloud point, Microsoft is one of the leaders in that space. Besides their Azure platform having 19% market share (2nd behind AWS at 32%), Office 365 holds it's own with about 40% market share verses Google's 59%.
This isn't a conversation about which is better or blindly sticking Apple/Windows decals on everything you own. Rather, it's about the current state of reality in the desktop OS world (of course, mobile is a completely different conversation). Until this changes with a competitive OS or a future one to come, the dominate desktop development will continue to be on the Windows platform (just ask the various Linux flavors about that reality - they were supposed to take over the desktop market 15-20 years ago, if you recall). Cloud processing may take over the desktop one day in the future, but currently we are nowhere close to having equivalent performance using that technology versus local processing, mostly due to the bandwidth bottleneck.
BTW, glad to know you aspire to be a professional futurist (I actually know people in that business), but my advice would be to not make the career change just yet.