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I think this paragraph really sums up the whole article for me: > The last nail in the coffin came, of all places, from Apple. Thanks to OS X, Apple has come b
by Digit-Al 8y ago
I think this paragraph really sums up the whole article for me:
> The last nail in the coffin came, of all places, from Apple. Thanks to OS X, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare in technology. [2] Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the same in the audience at startup school. All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses Microsoft's anyway.
If you live in a forest you'll think the world is made of trees.
Paul Graham is a very clever man, and I have a lot of respect for him, but he lives in a high tech bubble. People in high-tech start-ups use apple; people who work in creative industries (mostly) use apple; most of the rest of the world use Windows PCs. So to declare the desktop (does this include laptop?) "dead", especially back in 2005, is most definitely premature.
Question: has anyone out there come across a non-high-tech multinational corporation that uses apples instead of PCs?
- ultrasounder 8y agoEven within FAANG as a developer You the developer gets a choice of MBP vs PC. But PG was alluding to the specific fact that Macs outnumber PCs within the YC bubble which still holds true.