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Vindicated how? This news doesn't change the history of past laptops. Apple spent 3 years selling laptops where the keys fell off the keyboards. The don't care

by lupire 2y ago

Vindicated how? This news doesn't change the history of past laptops. Apple spent 3 years selling laptops where the keys fell off the keyboards. The don't care about RAM complaints. Their market is "wants prettier than Windows". Apple products are extremely popular, and they use RAM (now soldered RAM) as a hardware dongle to discriminate on price by how much computing power a user needs. It's a mini "App Store"-like monopoly built into the motherboard.

wpm 2y ago
Their market wants “works better than Windows” too. What an unbelievably tired cliche. Sure, aesthetics play a part in purchasing but there are PC laptops with similar aesthetics and build quality for around the same price and same lack of upgradability. Next, you’ll say with a smirk, that they need their Mac laptop to write their novel in a coffee shop.
- wannacboatmovie 2y ago
  > Next, you’ll say with a smirk, that they need their Mac laptop to write their novel in a coffee shop. To be truthful, that's about all they're good for. Macs are media consumption appliances. If the market wanted "better than Windows" as you claim, the entirety of the corporate world would be running Macs, which they don't. They have near-zero market share outside of a few Silicon Valley companies who do so to stave off the nerd revolt. Audio/video production has mostly moved back to Windows. Industrial automation, the PCs running every radio and TV station, every NASA launch - all Windows, some Linux, zero Mac. Hell, Apple was running Windows in their own factories (via Boot Camp). Apple designs their hardware using Cadence Allegro and Siemens NX. I'd like to meet the guy that has to admit "I'm a Windows server admin...at Apple." Developers also love them as a $3000 terminal emulator into a Linux machine, so they can code. In a coffee shop.
  - linotype 2y ago
    The decade you’re looking for where Mac vs PC was remotely relevant was two decades ago. It’s OK to let it go.
  - p51-remorse 2y ago
    > Macs are media consumption appliances Yeah, yesterday I media-consumptioned up a whole new feature for a multi-million dollar web app on my media-consumption appliance. You can make whatever point you're trying to make without saying things that are outright false. That tends to make people disregard the other things you say.

by lupire 2y ago

wpm 2y ago

Their market wants “works better than Windows” too. What an unbelievably tired cliche. Sure, aesthetics play a part in purchasing but there are PC laptops with similar aesthetics and build quality for around the same price and same lack of upgradability. Next, you’ll say with a smirk, that they need their Mac laptop to write their novel in a coffee shop.

wannacboatmovie 2y ago
> Next, you’ll say with a smirk, that they need their Mac laptop to write their novel in a coffee shop. To be truthful, that's about all they're good for. Macs are media consumption appliances. If the market wanted "better than Windows" as you claim, the entirety of the corporate world would be running Macs, which they don't. They have near-zero market share outside of a few Silicon Valley companies who do so to stave off the nerd revolt. Audio/video production has mostly moved back to Windows. Industrial automation, the PCs running every radio and TV station, every NASA launch - all Windows, some Linux, zero Mac. Hell, Apple was running Windows in their own factories (via Boot Camp). Apple designs their hardware using Cadence Allegro and Siemens NX. I'd like to meet the guy that has to admit "I'm a Windows server admin...at Apple." Developers also love them as a $3000 terminal emulator into a Linux machine, so they can code. In a coffee shop.
- linotype 2y ago
  The decade you’re looking for where Mac vs PC was remotely relevant was two decades ago. It’s OK to let it go.
- p51-remorse 2y ago
  > Macs are media consumption appliances Yeah, yesterday I media-consumptioned up a whole new feature for a multi-million dollar web app on my media-consumption appliance. You can make whatever point you're trying to make without saying things that are outright false. That tends to make people disregard the other things you say.