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Ah, let's remember one thing real quick. When people talk about macbooks being the best selling laptop line by a large margin, someone else always points out th

Ah, let's remember one thing real quick. When people talk about macbooks being the best selling laptop line by a large margin, someone else always points out that that is because it represents the entire access to that ecosystem (i.e. the total sales are not split between brands). In this case, you're also looking at a very cheap laptop in an OS where there are only two MODELS even on sale, one of which is older. It does not necessarily, or even probably, signal a sea change in the way people think about OSes.

tankbot 14y ago
> It does not necessarily, or even probably, signal a sea change in the way people think about OSes. I think this is a true statement and I agree completely, but only because Joe Averageuser doesn't think about OS's _at all_. I think this very much does signal a sea change in the way people use their computers. There will always be folks like you and me who want to get down to the nuts and bolts of things and start tweaking, but most people just want to check their email/facebook and work on that spreadsheet/document for the boss. For years we have all been talking about what moving 'to the cloud' would mean for computing as a whole and now it's happening. Your data goes with you wherever you go and your computer is a super cheap and nigh-disposable way to access it. The writing is definitely on the wall. In fact, at this point, it's been there long enough that it's starting to fade a little.