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@just_another_person@lemmy.world

2026-04-06 01:19 UTC

Go back 20 years. See how many times this prediction has been made 🤣🤣 The only shift now is Microsoft shitting the bed so hard that people don't want to deal with them. The difference this time is the MacBook Neo. People would gladly pay Apple $600 for a working machine WITH support and stores everywhere to get help if they have hardware issues. It's the new iPhone business model. They'll be taking more desktop market share than people even imagine on the price point alone.

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  • @ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-04-06 02:11

    > The only shift now is Microsoft shitting the bed so hard that people don’t want to deal with them. That's a pretty important difference...

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  • @morto@piefed.social 2026-04-06 02:38

    But the thing with anything that involves network effect (like any os adoption) is that the growth is very slow at first, but it grows faster and faster as more people get in. We used to be grouped along with "others" in charts, then came the "counted with less than 1%" mark, and it took a long time. Then the 1% milestone, then 2%, much faster than from not counted to counted, then 3%, faster than it moved from 1 to 2. Now stats vary from 3 to 5 %, depending on the source. It's getting really fast, and will grow even faster. This is a very significant difference

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  • @Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-06 01:26

    not to mention Apple Education sells it for $500

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  • @pineapple@lemmy.ml 2026-04-07 12:22

    Its different this time. And you know it.

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  • @iopq@lemmy.world 2026-04-06 06:53

    Linux already got good a few years ago. Once most of the software just worked in wine that was the point where Linux adoption started to grow

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