They’re looking at their particular use case. That may limit the applicability of this to other people or companies, but that doesn’t make it politics.
When your CEO decides that your company will only buy Apple laptops, that is definitely a political football. Your CEO likes shiny things, and is willing to purchase the shiniest of them without regard to effectiveness or cost.
From the article:
> All incident.io developers are given a MacBook which they use for their development work.
Non-MacBook machines are apparently not an option, for whatever reason. Comparing against other machines would be interesting, but irrelevant.