Apple won only after windows gave average home users a horrific bsod/virus/reboot hell of an existence for about 20 years.
>Apple won only after windows gave average home users a horrific bsod/virus/reboot hell of an existence for about 20 years.
This hasn't been a thing for a very long time. I hear about as much about the spinning beach ball of death as I do BSOD. Apple is by no means perfect, or did you forget "you're holding it wrong".
Except that they aren't in the same business.
On the desktop, Microsoft is still kicking Apple's ass. Even moreso for servers. The only place Apple "won" is on mobile, where Microsoft lost to _everybody_.
In Windows space, MSFT gets their license money, and then its a commodity race to the bottom by the hardware makers who need to pay AMD/Intel for chips, MSFT for a license, and compete with 100 no-names OEMs for every penny.
They won on MP3 players.
They won on music stores.
They won on mobile.
They won on laptops.
They won on headphones.
Etc.
I'm not an Apple fanboy by any stretch of the imagination but it's immediately obvious that they've "won" more than just the mobile market.
Sure I guess if you're still living in 2010. Nobody uses an "mp3 player" anymore. Get with the times grampa. Everyone has a cellphone that plays MP3s today.
> They won on music stores.
Spotify is at 36% market share compared to Apple's 30% of the music streaming market.
>They won on mobile.
And Apple did not "win on mobile" - only in the US are they popular, but globally Android has 72% market share. Apple lost the mobile market to Android a long time ago.
>They won on laptops.
No, Apple did not "win on laptops", they are still at about 9% market share.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_compu...
"As of the third quarter of 2020, HP was cited as the leading vendor for notebook computers closely followed by Lenovo, both with a share of 23.6% each. They were followed by Dell (13.7%), Apple (9.7%) and Acer (7.9%)."
Nothing has really changed since 2020. Apple will always be a tiny portion of the personal computer and laptop market.
>They won on headphones.
huh? There are far better headphones than anything Apple makes. Are you talking about earbuds? There's a difference.
No, Apple has not "won" on anything but having overpriced hardware. $3600 for a VR headset? Yeah, I guess they "won" most ridiculously overpriced hardware ever.
Microsoft won in the enterprise. They are steadily loosing market share outside of it.
Anecdotally, I work in a coworking space with lots of businesses in Australia, and I’d say about 85% of people in the office space have MacBooks.
> I’d say about 85% of people in the office space have MacBooks.
That doesn't prove quality. All it proves is you are in an echo chamber. I've worked in lots of corporate environments that were all PC and some that were all Apple, and a few that were mixed. All it really depends on is if the company values appearances or functionality, and appearances are one of Apple's main value propositions.
Android also by far runs more phones than iOS.
Apple "won" the wealthy Western market, which is all that has ever mattered to them.
I learned not to install and uninstall things. Even if I needed to.
The more Mac’s I had, the more likely I ran into a problem as well. But it was usually just some glitch.
I second this. My mom switched to a iMac G4 and never needed me again, except that time she plugged the power strip into itself.
It got to the point where I didn't want to tell people I worked with computers.
Apple won after Sony dropped the ball on HDD Walkmans and Nokia, Motorola, Palm, and Blackberry failed to reject carrier bloatware.
Macs are a side hustle for Apple, and MS is still the dominant player for desktop computing.
Ed Zitron goes into it in a recent article rant here[1] (skip to the "direct example" section if you're not interested in the rest of the read) where he reviews the best selling laptop on Amazon, which is ridiculously cheap... at a devil's bargain.
Most people would be better served with a $600 Mac mini that will literally still be working & better in 5 years than in buying a $300 Amazon deal with 4GB ram which will run awful and die right outside warranty period. Maybe in a couple years apple will have prior year minis a little cheaper / refurbs available at $450-500ish too.
I just bought a $280 Acer laptop, still limited storage but better class, twice the ram, and with a CPU that actually has performance cores so it runs 2.5x-5x faster.
It came with chromeOS, which is a limiting factor, but in this particular comparison it sounds like it's more of an upside than a downside.