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If Apple disappears tomorrow, the world will be at a loss. If Microsoft disappears tomorrow, no one will bat an eyelid.
by ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
If Apple disappears tomorrow, the world will be at a loss.
If Microsoft disappears tomorrow, no one will bat an eyelid.
- lwhi 3y agoHow do you figure this?
- dmz73 3y agoI have no love for Microsoft but they do provide value that most businesses rely on. If they disappeared tomorrow, everyone would feel the pain. Apple provides just a veneer of convenience. If Apple disappeared tomorrow, only Apple users would be emotionally devastated but otherwise just slightly inconvenienced as they would have to bring forward their next phone/tablet purchase forward by few months and decide which brand to use instead.
- askvictor 3y agoBut... Blue bubbles!
- c-cube 3y agoYeah I'm sure that none of the users of vscode, github, Excel, or windows will have any problem with moving on. That's always a trivial, frictionless process.
- screye 3y agoSurely that's a joke ?
- ksec 3y agoIf I had to vote the most important piece of Software in history, it wouldn't be Windows, MacOS or Linux. It would be Excel. There is a whole world of tech usage outside of Tech or Silicon Valley. It is not an exaggeration to say the world runs on Excel. Most if not all Fortune 2000 relies on it.
- pjmlp 3y agoAnd as I learned while doing some consulting gigs at a life sciences multinational, the entry point to VB.NET. The more advanced users would use VBA, and when that wasn't enough, ask the IT to get Visual Studio with VB.NET configured on their system.