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Apple demolished by Microsoft at PC events
- jaredcwhite 10y agoA false media narrative. Apple will sell millions of MacBook Pros. Microsoft will be lucky if they even sell a million of the very cool-looking but niche Surface Studio.
- mamcx 10y agoNo. This is about the "PC Event". Is patently clear MS have the upper hand and Apple was a huge letdown with the biggest backlash of the century so far (from the PRO crowd). This is not about sales, but perception. Even when WinTel (before) sell way more than Apple, Apple get the "cool" vibre. This was not. And this is not as before, where the typical gloom and doom about Apple was declared.
- eridius 10y agoThere's always backlash from the self-proclaimed "pro" crowd about Apple's events. So many people can't get past the idea that Apple's aiming at the general public, not at their little power-user niche, and so they declare that Apple has "lost its way" or are otherwise putting out bad products, even though they'll sell them by the butt-load since, ya know, they're aimed at the general public and the general public will buy them.
- ArghyBlarghy 10y agoi'm deleting Hacker News from my feed reader until all these Macbook/Surface Pro articles are past.
- floopidydoopidy 10y agoAgreed. Hacker News has jumped the shark.
- mcphage 10y agoIn 2 months when people try out the new laptops and learn that they can easily press the escape button, there's going to be a lot of people feeling pretty dumb about the things they said.
- grzm 10y agoIf that's the case, I doubt they'll remember they said anything about it at all, much less feel pretty dumb about it. It's just human nature. It's too early to tell. While I trust the Touch Bar will be good (or at least good enough) for most people, it's likely there will be some people who aren't happy with it.
- ludamad 10y agoCan't you just set up a simple filter?
- kyriakos 10y agoHN represents a particular target market. The latest Apple products were not what this market was wishing for, that's all. Probably a lot of people being vocal will still buy them. Either way the Microsoft praise after the events was much less than the apple demise posts which means people did not fall in love with Microsoft, they are just disappointed.
- imsotouchy 10y agono room for humour on HN...