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Love this: Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s.

wayneftw 6y ago
That's hilarious because nearly all the young people live streaming on Twitch are running Windows. I'm surprised when I see a Mac there. Even a wide majority of programmers hanging out in the Science & Technology streams are mostly on Windows although I do generally see slightly more Macs in that directory. I can't imagine an OS that is very closely associated with pro gaming also being associated with grandmas. A Mac is very definitely what you'd still give to your grandmother these days.
- hu3 6y ago
  You were not kidding. I checked the top Science & Technology 18 streams. 14 were using Windows.
cbozeman 6y ago
This is such a laughable take that it could only be expressed on HN... Anyone who wants a one-stop shop for doing computing is forced into Windows 10 by default. Don't believe that? Name another OS you can play AAA games on, then fire up professional software suites (Office, Adobe CC) to do nearly anything creative / office / analytic-related, etc. so forth. This article is idiotic. That statement is idiotic. Microsoft should be fucking terrifying to anyone with any foresight. Yeah, they're not Apple... it takes them 3-4 tries to get shit "right", but once they do, its fantastic. The entire Surface line up is proof of this. Until the M1 MacBooks, Surface Book 3 was hands down the best laptop you could buy. Sleek, powerful, good battery life, and the pen support basically makes it an iPad Pro / MacBook Pro in a single device. Microsoft's first ARM chips will be garbage, sure. But their 3rd and 4th ones won't. I'm a little terrified at the walled gardens that are going up, and everyone else ought to be as well. A world where Apple chips run on Apple OSes and Microsoft chips run on Microsoft OSes and Amazon chips run on Amazon OSes and who knows who else is going to jump into this ring, but I'm not sure this is the best direction for computing.
- vishnugupta 6y ago
  > Name another OS you can play AAA games on I'm very surprised that Apple hasn't tried to tap into this market. I miss gaming since I'm on exclusively on Mac. Once in a while I get an urge to set up Steam etc., but then the effort involved makes it tough for me to overcome the inertia so I leave it at that. Why don't EA Sport etc., launch native app on Mac? Would someone from the gaming domain/industry comment?
  - cbozeman 6y ago
    "Because there's not enough Mac users to justify support," is the official tag line, but we all know that's bullshit.. the answer is, "Because we can't rake in cash hand over fist."

That's hilarious because nearly all the young people live streaming on Twitch are running Windows. I'm surprised when I see a Mac there. Even a wide majority of programmers hanging out in the Science & Technology streams are mostly on Windows although I do generally see slightly more Macs in that directory. I can't imagine an OS that is very closely associated with pro gaming also being associated with grandmas. A Mac is very definitely what you'd still give to your grandmother these days.

hu3 6y ago
You were not kidding. I checked the top Science & Technology 18 streams. 14 were using Windows.

cbozeman 6y ago

This is such a laughable take that it could only be expressed on HN... Anyone who wants a one-stop shop for doing computing is forced into Windows 10 by default. Don't believe that? Name another OS you can play AAA games on, then fire up professional software suites (Office, Adobe CC) to do nearly anything creative / office / analytic-related, etc. so forth. This article is idiotic. That statement is idiotic. Microsoft should be fucking terrifying to anyone with any foresight. Yeah, they're not Apple... it takes them 3-4 tries to get shit "right", but once they do, its fantastic. The entire Surface line up is proof of this. Until the M1 MacBooks, Surface Book 3 was hands down the best laptop you could buy. Sleek, powerful, good battery life, and the pen support basically makes it an iPad Pro / MacBook Pro in a single device. Microsoft's first ARM chips will be garbage, sure. But their 3rd and 4th ones won't. I'm a little terrified at the walled gardens that are going up, and everyone else ought to be as well. A world where Apple chips run on Apple OSes and Microsoft chips run on Microsoft OSes and Amazon chips run on Amazon OSes and who knows who else is going to jump into this ring, but I'm not sure this is the best direction for computing.

vishnugupta 6y ago
> Name another OS you can play AAA games on I'm very surprised that Apple hasn't tried to tap into this market. I miss gaming since I'm on exclusively on Mac. Once in a while I get an urge to set up Steam etc., but then the effort involved makes it tough for me to overcome the inertia so I leave it at that. Why don't EA Sport etc., launch native app on Mac? Would someone from the gaming domain/industry comment?
- cbozeman 6y ago
  "Because there's not enough Mac users to justify support," is the official tag line, but we all know that's bullshit.. the answer is, "Because we can't rake in cash hand over fist."