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No, Betamax was worse for most uses than VHS. The picture quality of Betamax was better at roughly the same tape speed, but the cassettes held about half the amount of tape. Slowing down the tape to improve capacity made the quality advantage go away.
Hazzard is a fictional county in Georgia that's the setting for the TV show “The Dukes of Hazzard”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
Also, it was never “OSX”, like the article uses, but so many people call it that.
> S.R.O.’s, including residential hotel units and rooming houses, may have numbered as high as 90,000 in San Francisco at the inception of the 1930’s, meaning they were nearly as prevalent as apartments. By the early 1990’s the number of S.R.O. units in San Francisco had been reduced dramatically, to approximately 20,000.
> The Defense Department has transitioned away from a 1970s-era nuclear command and control system that relied on eight-inch floppy disks.
Apple events
It depends on how you define it. I'd define it as having more than half of all game software sales (including DLC, subscriptions, microtransactions, etc.). You could also include hardware spending, but most people bought computers to do other things. You could also use time spent playing games, and in that case, the PC might win because of Solitaire and Minesweeper.
I'd define “PC” as a machine running MS-DOS or Windows. Also, I'd include any machine with a built-in compatibility layer, like the Steam Deck. I wouldn't include other personal computer platforms.
I've been searching the web, but I haven't been able to find the stats on this.
The law is crap. If lawmakers were concerned about privacy, they'd pass a privacy law regulating all services, not just one.