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It's obvious what are they thinking: "This gives us conversions, this gives us money, what are you gonna do, pay 3000$ for a Mac?"
by izacus 4y ago
It's obvious what are they thinking:
"This gives us conversions, this gives us money, what are you gonna do, pay 3000$ for a Mac?"
- JohnFen 4y agoI don't think they'll get many conversions out of it. They're fishing in a pool that already actively signaled that they don't like the bait.
- dzader 4y agoand it's a pool not paying them for services so they probably don't care about losing them.
- JohnFen 4y agoSo then why bother targeting them in the first place?
- MathMonkeyMan 4y agoIf the numbers go up, somebody looks good. Maybe even gets a promotion.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoThe thinking is that MS' needs come first, and yours are way, way down the list, unless you're a volume license holder. Whereby, you get an off switch. So the magnitude or logic of the gain doesn't factor much unless a policy hits the news with a stickiness of several months.
- midoridensha 4y agoThey don't need a lot of conversions. If 2% of users take them up on the ad, that's an increase in revenue and profit. If it pisses off 40% of users, that's not a problem, because only 0.001% of users are going to get so angry that they'll stop using Windows (and those users probably paid for a license anyway as part of the computer purchase, so it won't affect MS's revenues).
- giancarlostoro 4y agoI'll install Linux or indeed buy a Mac instead moving forward.
- js8 4y agoGonna move to Proton, thank you.
- wankle 4y agoI'm loving Proton on Ubuntu.
- Scarbutt 4y ago$999 macbook air is perfectly usable?
- Kye 4y agoWith a 256GB SSD? Please. Some of us use computers for creative work and don't want to pay absurd markups for soldered on SSDs and RAM.
- Twisell 4y agoWell frankly it all depend on your job. I got a win10 256GB HP laptop at work and never felt fooled. Most of the files I need are never permanently stored on my laptop so I'm pretty glad IT prioritized a good Graphic Card that support my 4k monitor + 1 ext 1080p display of my home config on top of the internal 1080p. While yeah on my 7 years old personal mac laptop though, the 256Gb now seems limited because of my personal Photo Library. (Which is by the way the standard MacOS/iOS Photo library which is both available offline/synced/backed up using actually useful and configureable OS provided basic tools as opposed to adversial adware)
- r00fus 4y agoYes, for most people it's fine. Cloud storage is a thing, and so is cheap external storage.
- Kye 4y agoWell, they didn't qualify it that way. So no, it's not "perfectly usable." It's perfectly usable for people who don't do much with it. If I need a modern mainframe terminal, it barely matters what laptop or OS I use. If I need to hold 2TB of samples and have room for 2TB of video I'm working on and prefer it onboard, I can't get that at any price on a MacBook Air, and a soldered on 2TB is hundreds more than plopping a 2TB in my laptop's spare slot. In fact, I can max it out with 8TB storage and 64GB RAM for the markup to get a 2TB SSD/16GB RAM Air. You see the problem. I'm not saying everyone needs it, but the broad claim that a $999 Air is perfectly usable has some large and varied edge cases. If a $999 Air were enough for me, then I would have put a new battery in my old laptop and put Linux on it instead of upgrading. Apple's lineup was considered and dismissed for the absurd markups on storage and RAM.
- INGSOCIALITE 4y agoyup.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoI'll pay $0 and install Linux instead. I'll recommend it to others too. Hell I'll do literally anything in my power to run Linux, including reverse engineering Windows software. I refuse to accept ads in my OS.
- simooooo 4y agoRunning Active Directory would be easier than that
- Quiark 4y agoWell, that's what I did.