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I love Apple as much as any other programmer, but we have to remember that they lost the Mac vs PC wars. There is a still popular perception that Macs are for
by Charuru 16y ago
I love Apple as much as any other programmer, but we have to remember that they lost the Mac vs PC wars.
There is a still popular perception that Macs are for frivolous hippies and PCs is what real people use to do real work. Obviously it's different for programmers and many other people, but we're talking about mainstream marketing here.
They did great in the mobile segment because of extremely weak competition and revolutionary new products. If Blackberry had a non-ass touchscreen device out before the iPhone I doubt Apple's simplicity would've had been effective counter-marketing.
- kscaldef 16y agoThere is a still popular perception that Macs are for frivolous hippies and PCs is what real people use to do real work. I'd tend to disagree. That might have been the attitude a decade ago, but today I think it goes more like "Sure, Macs are nice, but I can't afford one". At least that's what I hear most frequently from people I know.
- nostromo 16y agoThe question though is if the PC won out because of its complexity and feature set, or for other reasons (openness, business practices, etc.)