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Windows just isn't cool, no matter how hard Microsoft tries to rebrand it. It'll never be cool until Microsoft does something to not make it ubiquitous. Window
by bepotts 8y ago
Windows just isn't cool, no matter how hard Microsoft tries to rebrand it. It'll never be cool until Microsoft does something to not make it ubiquitous.
Windows is what you use when you're a kid at a public school or have parents that don't have the money to buy a Mac. Macs and iPhones are trendy because not everyone owns them, they're really nice, and they're pricey.
Windows is like Wal-mart while Apple is Whole Foods.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoWindows isn't cool because of BSODs, constant restarts and waiting for it to update, and Candy Crush advertisements in the start menu. And the hibernate/sleep function worked terribly (at least for the longest time, don't know if it's fixed now), compared to Apple's fold down the screen when you want to go and open it back up to what you were doing and it works all the time.
- bepotts 8y agoThat too. Microsoft allows venders with terrible design teams to sell their product and customers associate Windows with these product lines. Microsoft cannot control their brand. Apple controls the entire stack so they're able to constantly deliver a quality experience. If all Windows machines were like the Surface Book then this conversation would be different.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoBut Microsoft themselves is now the one putting candy crush ads on the start menu, and forcing everyone into a two-major-upgrades-per-year cycle that's causing so many headaches.
- sleepybrett 8y agoLets also not forget the shell is so shit that they finally started shipping the linux subsystem. Honestly I would have gone to primarily linux instead of mac years ago if osx hadn't been what it is (bsd/*nix).
- scarface74 8y ago40%+ of smart phones sold in the US are iPhones There is no exclusivity in owning an iPhone.
- rwc 8y agoTell that to people who deride their “green bubble friends”