Microsoft has had 90% marketshare for 20 years now.
You know who has demonstrated that they are their own worst enemy? Consumers.
People vote with their pocketbook. Now you have to live with that result.
You know who has demonstrated that they are their own worst enemy? Consumers.
People vote with their pocketbook. Now you have to live with that result.
My parents do not need $1.5k of laptop to browse the internet, email, and exchange photos of grandkids. Particularly in a world when a decent laptop doing the above should cost $750 or less out the store.
Plus... if you're fleeing Windows because of the advertising, you're gonna go to a google product? How on earth does that help?
Also, 5 year old Air for $1k? That's almost how much they cost new. I'm seeing half that on Ebay/Craigslist. My sister has a new $450 Toshiba and my 5 year old Air runs much better. I got a new battery for it and gave it to her.
Unfortunately you went way too far with your rant and buried your point about Windows' real competition being more expensive. But the low end of Windows laptops is pretty atrocious. Someone stuck buying those aren't doing it because Airs lost their SD card port. They're doing it because they can't afford anything other than a computer that serves them ads, has 3hrs battery life, and struggles to buffer 1080p video on Youtube like my sister's new Toshiba.
I'm going to guess none. $30 of bloatware is extremely tempting when your profit margin is 4%, but it doesn't represent any meaningful savings.
In this case, I don’t think that’s fair. A great number of people can’t devote the time to learning a new operating system or cannot afford a high priced OS X machine.
Can't or won't? My experience has been that several people I know would rather stay in their comfort zone rather than learn something new. I'm not just talking about OSes here. I qualify this as a won't.
I suspect this reluctance to switch from the status quo might apply to a wider population than my acquaintances.
What's the use in learning an entirely new operating system on your desktop whenever most of your time (65%) is being spent on Mobile anyway? [2]
[0] http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/the-demographics-of-de... [1] http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/technology-device-owne... [2] "Mobile now accounts for about 65% of total digital media consumption" https://hackernoon.com/how-much-time-do-people-spend-on-thei...
There really isn't any learning unless you're a power user, and those are the people that can handle learning.
And even if there was, Microsoft moves their UI around often enough that people have had to "learn a new OS" at least three times by now.
Beats me. Not like we couldn’t see this coming for two decades. Soon you’ll be the product.
Maybe next year will be the year of Linux.