I think it’s a software company (apple) making changes to the ui to sell more hardware (apple). In a predictable coordinated fashion. The issue here is apple w

I think it’s a software company (apple) making changes to the ui to sell more hardware (apple). In a predictable coordinated fashion. The issue here is apple will always be the bad guy since they are seen doing all of this in a coordinated attempt to sell more stuff. Dell on the other hand only sells more stuff either when the software landscape, that they don’t control, has moved too far for the legacy hardware to keep up. Or they innovated on the hardware and show enough value for you to change hardware independent from software. Dell will almost never be the bad guy here unless they make subpar machines. The XPS and precision laptops are far from subpar. So you get guys like the parent that prefer dell since it seems more natural and not like they are being played.