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> Apple's sales plunge the overall PC market declined 29% https://www.wsj.com/articles/pc-shipments-fall-29-led-by-drop-in-apple-devices-fc14deec https://www.

• red-iron-pine 4y ago
  Most people use their phones for day to day computing; that's the real "personal computer". Laptops for things like web browsing and word processing haven't really improved in a meaningful way. Like my laptop from 4 years ago does just as fine a job as this year's model when it comes to browsing HN, running spotify, and managing ssh sessions to a cloud VM. Outside of gaming and some network simulation stuff for grad-school I have no need of a high-powered PC, and my i5 from a few years back still handles that well enough. Frankly if I didn't need to for network sim and VMs I'd have ditched the PC for a basic laptop, and hit my gaming fix w/ a Switch or Playstation.
  • pradn 4y ago
    It's too bad the Samsung Dex-style computing never made it to Apple devices. Apple is loath to combine mouse and touch-based computing, though.
    • azinman2 4y ago
      The iPad Magic Keyboard is a trackpad on a touch based os.