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Yeah, everybody upgraded their WFH office setups in the prior two years, now no one needs a new pc. We’re going to be good for a while.
by Finnucane 4y ago
Yeah, everybody upgraded their WFH office setups in the prior two years, now no one needs a new pc. We’re going to be good for a while.
- giuliomagnifico 4y ago> excluding ARM These figures exclude ARM CPUs, another possibility is that lots of people are switching/buying ARM devices.
- coffeebeqn 4y agoIsn’t Apple high end computers the only ones? Maybe some Chromebooks
- giuliomagnifico 4y agoYes there aren’t many but they’re growing very fast: https://www.techspot.com/news/97571-arm-cpus-forecast-capture-quarter-laptop-market-2027.html https://www.techspot.com/news/97571-arm-cpus-forecast-captur...
- nordsieck 4y ago> Yeah, everybody upgraded their WFH office setups in the prior two years, now no one needs a new pc. We’re going to be good for a while. Also, it feels like phones have entered that "Core 2 Duo" PC stage where upgrades don't really matter as much any more. I know software support can still be an issue, but at least on the iPhone side, I don't feel like I need to upgrade before my phone loses OS support.
- bushbaba 4y agoHence apples shift into the services segment. Pushing Apple Music, Apple TV, iCloud, etc.
- dfghjjbhvg 4y agoand payments. visa and mastercards will not last another decade if hardware sales don't pick up soon.
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoI upgraded from an S10 to an S22 and I can barely tell the difference.
- coffeebeqn 4y agoExactly it’s the same with laptops. If you know anything about decent specs and don’t buy something with a ridiculous bottleneck and do a fresh install you can find a 5+ year old laptop that is amazing for anything other than extreme workloads. I mean like rendering scenes - not VSCode and Slack or something
- ghaff 4y agoI use an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro for multimedia and some other things. But most of what I do on a 7+ year old MacBook and iMac does just fine. I suspect you also have something of a generational thing with many younger students not even using PCs.
- robryan 4y agoApple going to have a hard time getting people with M1 macs to upgrade any time soon.
- tyre 4y agoI had a 2015 MBP that was falling apart and waited for the M2 refresh. I expect that I won’t get another laptop until 2030. I have an iPhone 11 (fall 2019) and I see no reason to upgrade. It does feel like we’ve hit a plateau. The only step up I can see would be on-device ML/“AI” models. Removing the latency and improving offline capabilities of something like Siri would open some doors.
- ghaff 4y agoYeah. On-device ML. Cameras are also still improving YoY as more people abandon standalones. But while I'm usually on a 3 year cycle, I'd have to be convinced with this year's model. And I may slide in a Mac Mini/Studio in place of my iMac at some point, I'm not really in a hurry in spite of being out of OS update support. It's basically a browser machine given I have a newish laptop.
- EamonnMR 4y agoGreat way to put it. My current phone feels as useful now as the day I got it, whereas previous smartphones started to feel sluggish as apps and sites got slower and it felt outclassed by newer cameras.
- downrightmike 4y agoI'm waiting on USB-C
- mosquitobiten 4y agoThey also entered the extreme bloatware phase, see new Samsung phone with 60GB occupied out of the gate.
- ricardobayes 4y agoGames also don't really require that good PC's these days, you can pretty much still play everything on a decent 3-4 year machine