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> Most of the powerful laptops are neither Macs, as those go to the gaming laptops where - this is a big surprise - games and their performance counts. Apple has no answer there.

Games? the biggest market is the Mobile market, Desktop market is shrinking year after year, it'll become a niche very soon

Ever heard of Genshin Impact? https://gamerant.com/genshin-impact-made-more-money-in-its-f...

And please learn to project a little when you do some analysis, yesterday is long gone, tomorrow is what's going on

And when say nobody, i talk about the people making a deliberate choice, in that group, rarer are the people choosing a windows laptop, other than the people replacing their IT fleets, or your granny picking a cheap laptop because she has no clue what an OS is anyways and everything is pre-installed with Windows, for some reasons ;)

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Games, yes, games. We're talking about laptops here, not mobile phones. PC gaming industry is huge and continues to be (even in the future iterations you talk about).

When it comes to projections, the ~1300€ laptops are not going to be the ones taking over the world. Not in any realistic projection, unless the inflation goes to Turkey level.

Every people makes deliberate choice, don't discount someone's choice not being deliberate just because it does not align to yours. I don't pick a laptop for my own self, but a desktop - since I don't need the mobility when I need grunt. There M2 brings me nothing so far.

Your granny might make a more thoughtful choice than you do. She might buy a tool for herself while you're fancying over something shiny. That's not deliberate.

M1 and now M2 allows macbooks to run iOS apps/games natively so that makes macbooks able to consume natively the biggest market for Games, moving forward that's huge, as more games are being ported to phones Apex, Call of Duty, GTA, FIFA, Heartstone, League of Legends, Fortnite, Valorant (including indie titles like Dead Cells, Minecraft, Terraria)

and with Cloud gaming coming, as the infrastructure improves, and fiber becoming more and more popular, that'll allow every kind of devices able to consume intensive games

Microsoft added Android VM support in windows 11 because they know what's going on, they have access to the numbers

> Games?

Yes, games. Even as a floundering mess, Blizzard rakes in 300-400mm/quarter on a single game that is a PC exclusive, without insane microtransactions/loot boxes.

That's exactly why Blizzard is working on a mobile version of WoW, that's exactly why they made a mobiel version of Hearthstone, and that's why Riot is porting their games on mobile too 300-400M/quarter is nothing compared to what others are doing on mobile, and it is a strong IP with a dedicated playerbase that grew with the game

"In the first three months of 2022, Genshin Impact raked in £450million from player sales"

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