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Plural and possessive for the same word

Consider:

I mean technologies that shifted developer's mind.

There are two issues here:

  1. Should be it minds instead of mind?

  2. A developer possesses something, a mind (hopefully), but there is more than one developer (plural).

What should the sentence be?

Context.


Update: change now applied at the source for this example.

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robertd [ Editor ]

Since you have multiple developers (2), the collection of minds is plural (1), and the minds belong to the developers (2 again), I think it's:

...technologies that shifted developers' minds.

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donald remero
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I agree. …developers' minds…

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