Naturally there are those that feel entitled to get a Ferrari to go down the grocery store, but that is their problem.
If one is buying enterprise class prices, then it is always going to be more expensive with Apple's hardware, because those compilers and IDEs are not part of Apple's offering, adding to the already expensive hardware price.
And if by hardware workstation, you want a really beefy one, the Apple's alternative is only their top hardware.
Thus at the end of the day, when one does the math of what one is getting per buck/dollar/yen/..., still way over the usual budget on PC side.
Naturally there are those that feel entitled to get a Ferrari to go down the grocery store, but that is their problem.
If one is buying enterprise class prices, then it is always going to be more expensive with Apple's hardware, because those compilers and IDEs are not part of Apple's offering, adding to the already expensive hardware price.
And if by hardware workstation, you want a really beefy one, the Apple's alternative is only their top hardware.
Thus at the end of the day, when one does the math of what one is getting per buck/dollar/yen/..., still way over the usual budget on PC side.