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Duopolies are great things.

• ghaff 5y ago
  Apple and Microsoft mostly don't compete. Mac share of personal computers is quite small. Microsoft isn't in mobile. Apple is not really a public cloud provider (iCloud is mostly a backup service.) etc.
  • trhway 5y ago
    That is the best duopoly when instead of competing they divide the pie.
    • rootusrootus 5y ago
      Goog ain't far behind and they compete in Microsoft's market (cloud, at least) and Apple's too.
      • echelon 5y ago
        All of the FAAMG overlap into each others' pies. Phones: Apple, Google Search: Google, Microsoft Cloud: Amazon, Microsoft Email/Business suites: Google, Microsoft Movies/Entertainment: Apple, Amazon Games: Microsoft, Amazon
        • ipaddr 5y ago
          Amazon games? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Games https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Games
          • echelon 5y ago
            Twitch, Luna, New World, etc. They're all-in.
    • enkid 5y ago
      That's two monopolies.
• Gunax 5y ago
  The great thing is that the desktop space is considered small-peanuts now. It's no longer hip or cool. And even there, they are increasingly niche (windows for businesses and gamers, mac for video chat, web dev, and facebook moms).
  • shagmin 5y ago
    I don't know of anyone above their mid 20s that uses a Mac that isn't in the tech industry, so I looked up the numbers just out of curiosity. 17.1% of users use Macs as of December 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-share-of-windows-7/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha...
  • wayneftw 5y ago
    PC gaming is huge and so is live streaming. Try watching Twitch or following any gaming or streaming community. Next to nobody is using a Mac in that scene. Microsoft actually has a few different channels on Twitch.