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I actually find it kind of interesting. Historically, Apple absolutely would have been the risky platform to go for (I waited until their Intel laptops, using
by untog 11y ago
I actually find it kind of interesting.
Historically, Apple absolutely would have been the risky platform to go for (I waited until their Intel laptops, using Boot Camp as an insurance policy). But these days people have iPhones, iPads, some even have Apple TVs... the Apple hardware ecosystem is actually far stronger than Microsoft's. You absolutely are risking that syncing with your iPhone etc will be worse.
- sbov 11y agoWhy are people trying to bend over backwards here? Let's step outside the startup world for some facts: iPhone market share in the US is 43%. Macbook market share is 12%. So the vast majority of iPhone users are "risking" this. Which is really not a risk at all, because if it really were a risk Apple would be shooting themselves in the foot. They would be killing one of their most successful products for the sake of some of their least.
- jon-wood 11y agoI don't know for sure how many iPhone users have ever plugged their device into a computer for anything other than a quick battery top up, but my hunch is most people just don't sync phones with computers any more, they sync them with iCloud or Google. I don't own an iPhone, but I've never even attempted to synchronise my phone with my laptop - contacts, calendar, and email come from Google, music from Spotify, and video from Netflix or Amazon. The closest I've come is copying some photos off the SD card.
- anjc 11y agoThe only people that need to worry are professionals. Developers and so on. And they can decide themselves whether switching is a risk without a journalist saying that a good product isn't an alternative because of this risk. The Microsoft hardware product line is arguably more complete than Apple's at this point, when you factor in the Xbox. There's minimal risk to casual users in switching.
- pjc50 11y agoFor one thing, you'll have to use Windows iTunes, which is notoriously bad. I find it very interesting that Apple is now the "default" laptop and Windows is the strange alternative that people are worried about switching to.
- ForHackernews 11y ago> I find it very interesting that Apple is now the "default" laptop and Windows is the strange alternative that people are worried about switching to. Only in a tiny minority of wealthy dev/artist types.
- MaysonL 11y agoAlso, it's much easier to get a MacBook to run Windows than it is to get a Windows laptop to run OS X.