Chromebooks and smart TVs are essentially thin clients, and they do just fine for many home users, businesses, and education markets. The idea of having to run

Chromebooks and smart TVs are essentially thin clients, and they do just fine for many home users, businesses, and education markets. The idea of having to run a heavy app on your own hardware doesn't really make sense anymore unless you're a creator of some sort, whether a dev or a video or games or whatever person (and even then some of that happens in the cloud these days). If I were going to school or doing generic office document work, I wouldn't want to chug along a $1000 machine just to be a glorified note taker. Even doing the dev work, a lot of the code workspace in the cloud services are slowly but surely maturing, and are much more reproducible than individually setting up dev machines with their own node etc environments. Docker doesn't do so well on Macs either, with larger codebases especially. Don't get me wrong, I love my MacBook, but it's not the right tool for every person or every job.