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Yet given all this, for a substantial cohort of customers, the Apple brand is still bought as a badge of "coolness".

by Rubayo 5y ago

nobodyknowsyoda 5y ago
Slightly off topic, but I do love the translucent terminal on the Mac. It is very cool
- rovr138 5y ago
  Pretty sure gnome-terminal and terminator both have this.
  - testific8 5y ago
    Quite a number of terminal emulators have this feature. Alacritty and xfce4 terminal as well.
  - edgyquant 5y ago
    As far as I know pretty much every Linux terminal emulator has an opacity setting so long as you have a compositor installed
  - keyb0ardninja 5y ago
    And konsole (And pretty much every Linux terminal)
  - mhh__ 5y ago
    And powershell (if I understand what is being described).
    - noisem4ker 5y ago
      That would be Windows Terminal, the application inside of which PowerShell and other shells run.
- Siira 5y ago
  It's a performance hog that provides little value.
Nextgrid 5y ago
The Apple brand is still where things mostly "just work". Sure, it's significantly declined in the last few years, but it's still ahead of Linux, and while Windows was great during the Windows 7 era and Microsoft definitely has the resources to compete, it seems like they're intentionally degrading the experience with Windows 10.
- l33t2328 5y ago
  Why do you say they’re degrading the experience?
  - wincy 5y ago
    The other day I had a windows upgrade and suddenly had weather on my desktop. I thought it was some malware I’d downloaded. Nope, new windows feature with a confusing way to disable it so I had to Google it. My next laptop will definitely be a MacBook.
    - deleted 5y ago
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    - Strom 5y ago
      I had that weather widget show up a few days ago as well. Beyond being unwanted it is also incompetent at the basics. I have my Windows regional settings correctly configured and yet this weather widget still showed me temperature in Fahrenheit.
    - mlazos 5y ago
      To each their own, but I find it hilarious that the weather widget is the straw that broke the camel’s back for you not wanting Windows anymore. There are so many better reasons to move away from Windows.
      - wincy 5y ago
        Well me selling off my $1200 video card (my midlife crisis gamer “Ferrari”) and quitting video canes completely has a lot to do with it too. I just don’t have a compelling reason to stay. My work laptops have always been MacBook Pros, they’re nice, and funnily enough my favorite feature is things like iTerm that just doesn’t something as good on Linux.
tshaddox 5y ago
I really don’t know how long I’m willing to buy this argument that Apple is a “luxury” brand or that Apple or its customers are disproportionately concerned about coolness or fashion. All the competing flagship smartphones have similar products at similar prices, including all the branded accessories, as well as extremely similar marketing and advertising. And at least in the United States, Apple has nearly a 50% market share, which makes it really hard to buy the narrative that people are only interested in Apple products because of Apple’s marketing and their desire to fit in or look cool.
- cglong 5y ago
  I can't tell you how many comments I've gotten (in jest I know) about how their text bubbles to me are now green.
- throw14082020 5y ago
  > Apple has nearly a 50% market share What market are you talking about? I haven't heard the 50% market share number in the US. - iOS is 59.71% of smartphones in the US - macOS is 27.16% of Desktop PCs in the US https://www.mobileapps.com/blog/android-vs-ios-market-share#3_United_States https://www.mobileapps.com/blog/android-vs-ios-market-share#... https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america/ https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...
  - tshaddox 5y ago
    I’m talking about smartphone market share. Most sources show around 40-50% market share in the US for Apple, sometimes spiking higher in quarters with popular iPhone releases.

Yet given all this, for a substantial cohort of customers, the Apple brand is still bought as a badge of "coolness".

by Rubayo 5y ago

Yet given all this, for a substantial cohort of customers, the Apple brand is still bought as a badge of "coolness".

nobodyknowsyoda 5y ago

Slightly off topic, but I do love the translucent terminal on the Mac. It is very cool

rovr138 5y ago
Pretty sure gnome-terminal and terminator both have this.
- testific8 5y ago
  Quite a number of terminal emulators have this feature. Alacritty and xfce4 terminal as well.
- edgyquant 5y ago
  As far as I know pretty much every Linux terminal emulator has an opacity setting so long as you have a compositor installed
- keyb0ardninja 5y ago
  And konsole (And pretty much every Linux terminal)
- mhh__ 5y ago
  And powershell (if I understand what is being described).
  - noisem4ker 5y ago
    That would be Windows Terminal, the application inside of which PowerShell and other shells run.
Siira 5y ago
It's a performance hog that provides little value.

Nextgrid 5y ago

The Apple brand is still where things mostly "just work". Sure, it's significantly declined in the last few years, but it's still ahead of Linux, and while Windows was great during the Windows 7 era and Microsoft definitely has the resources to compete, it seems like they're intentionally degrading the experience with Windows 10.

l33t2328 5y ago
Why do you say they’re degrading the experience?
- wincy 5y ago
  The other day I had a windows upgrade and suddenly had weather on my desktop. I thought it was some malware I’d downloaded. Nope, new windows feature with a confusing way to disable it so I had to Google it. My next laptop will definitely be a MacBook.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
  - Strom 5y ago
    I had that weather widget show up a few days ago as well. Beyond being unwanted it is also incompetent at the basics. I have my Windows regional settings correctly configured and yet this weather widget still showed me temperature in Fahrenheit.
  - mlazos 5y ago
    To each their own, but I find it hilarious that the weather widget is the straw that broke the camel’s back for you not wanting Windows anymore. There are so many better reasons to move away from Windows.
    - wincy 5y ago
      Well me selling off my $1200 video card (my midlife crisis gamer “Ferrari”) and quitting video canes completely has a lot to do with it too. I just don’t have a compelling reason to stay. My work laptops have always been MacBook Pros, they’re nice, and funnily enough my favorite feature is things like iTerm that just doesn’t something as good on Linux.

tshaddox 5y ago

I really don’t know how long I’m willing to buy this argument that Apple is a “luxury” brand or that Apple or its customers are disproportionately concerned about coolness or fashion. All the competing flagship smartphones have similar products at similar prices, including all the branded accessories, as well as extremely similar marketing and advertising. And at least in the United States, Apple has nearly a 50% market share, which makes it really hard to buy the narrative that people are only interested in Apple products because of Apple’s marketing and their desire to fit in or look cool.

cglong 5y ago
I can't tell you how many comments I've gotten (in jest I know) about how their text bubbles to me are now green.
throw14082020 5y ago
> Apple has nearly a 50% market share What market are you talking about? I haven't heard the 50% market share number in the US. - iOS is 59.71% of smartphones in the US - macOS is 27.16% of Desktop PCs in the US https://www.mobileapps.com/blog/android-vs-ios-market-share#3_United_States https://www.mobileapps.com/blog/android-vs-ios-market-share#... https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america/ https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...
- tshaddox 5y ago
  I’m talking about smartphone market share. Most sources show around 40-50% market share in the US for Apple, sometimes spiking higher in quarters with popular iPhone releases.