Well, price is an important factor after all.
I guess wider software selection would be another point in favor of Windows.
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Well, price is an important factor after all.
I guess wider software selection would be another point in favor of Windows.
Wow, those figures are mostly quite great, that's good growth rates for the top half of the chart. MS certainly aren't shrinking away anytime soon.
Even though the software selection for Windows is massive, I find many macOS Apps (App store & other developers) improve my workflow. But your point remains important for many of those who use Windows. However, I wish that Internet Download Manager was available on macOS.
Although I'm not a fan of Windows I've had to use Bootcamp to install WIN10 for courses I do. It's so difficult where I live to find university courses that focus on unix/linux/macOS. Everything is Windows based courses.
Good for them. Point still stands though - their desktop dominance isn’t helping them any in other areas such as wearables, whose success is predicated on having a strong mobile presence. I am also willing to bet that Apple will be the one to mainstream AR, not Microsoft.
In the end, it looks like each company is carving out their own profitable niche and neither is really competing directly with one another. Office on the iPad is actually pretty good. Much better than office on my iMac!
Just bought myself a Surface Laptop 2 for £999 (i5/8GB/256GB). Blows away anything Apple have 'innovated' recently. Apple's current Mac offerings are a disaster and the pricing is obscene.
I believe they're meant to be "major" updates as such, with one being a "feature" update where the new features get released and one being akin to a service pack. I must admit, I'm not used to Windows having these types updates and my applications still working post update compared to OSX.
No it doesn't, that's what I proved.
Yes it does, take a look at gaming or office.
And anyway Microsoft's success in other areas mostly isn't dependent on their desktop dominance anyway which is a very good thing and something you can't say about Apple.
If apple's smartphone sales will decline in upcoming years their service will also be affected negatively.
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I have two PCs (Lap and Desk top) still running Windows 7 and am happy with them. Another laptop has Windows (?)8.1 and it is a pain.
Don't know what I am missing with Windows 10.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has steadily climbed to be the richest corporation (briefly) beating AAPL, AMZN, GOOG+GOOGL, FB and BRK.A+B! Right now they are the richest
, wow!I think their subscription model of the Office Suite is the main reason for this - and discontinuing support for 2011 version.
Wonder why Apple did not stay in the fight - the world agrees on a single format? The countries within a small subcontinent can't agree on a unified electrical plug, and we still have multiple TV formats, and Blu-Ray zones.
At the time, an Amiga could emulate a Mac faster than a Mac could run. There may have been something to that claim about being better.
It was a computer. It did math. The same math that works in spreadsheets and word processors works in games.
But, it could run the Mac OS of the day faster than the Mac of the day. So unless the Mac was also just a gaming system, your point is moot. It really was a case of “anything you can do, I can do better.”
And bad business decisions wrecked a good computer (or 2 if you count the Atari ST also).
Then it should have buried Apple, right? But it’s long dead and no amount of “claims” will change that. There were many claims of superiority by numerous competitors but they are dead and buried along with the Amiga. People who only look at specs and processor speeds just don’t get it.
68K and PowerPC died to x86 so that affected both Amiga and Macintosh. Apple would've gone BK just like Commodore if it wasn't for Microsoft bailing out the company. Mac SE I had was boring black and white and slow next to the color Apple IIgs and Amiga 2000 I also had back then.
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Again, the Amiga could run the MacOS and every single Mac application, and run them faster than an actual Mac at that time. It wasn’t subjective.
Maybe you like waiting on your computer because it gives you more time to run to the bathroom. Maybe you hate stereo sound because your dead in one ear. Maybe the additional colors didn’t matter to you because you are color blind. Maybe you were turned off because the lower price wasn’t “professional enough.” Maybe you didn’t like the NTSC output option than made for cheap and easy genlocks and helped usher in a lot of digital video.
In that case, the Mac of the day might have been a better computer for you.
If all of the above wasn’t true of you back in 1989, then you made a mistake. Don’t feel terrible. A lot of people did. Most of them bought Windows machines and set us on the course that landed us here.
Imagine if the IBM PC clones had been the first to lose. The 68xxx and PowerPC would’ve received all the development. Apple, Atari, and Amiga would have been a AAA threat. Linux wouldn’t have been a thing because Amigas could run Unix natively (probably the other two also, but I do not know). Registry errors would only happen at weddings. No one would give a damn about conventional, extended, or expanded RAM, and unicorns would have come out of hiding as we entered a golden age of world peace. Unfortunately, Microsoft sold their soul to the devil and it never happened.
It’s been a long time since I have encountered an Amiga fanatic. I didn't know they still existed, though.
There's still very active hardware development for the Amiga. For example, Vampire FPGA based accelerators are very popular.
https://www.apollo-accelerators.com/
They're even coming out with a stand-alone version that synthesizes the whole Amiga plus accelerator.
Nothing weird about measured performance. If you look at it objectively, you see.
Would you pay more for a Mac today that was slower, had a lower quality display with fewer colors, mono sound only, and didn’t do one single thing better than the Mac you already own?
Remember, it’s more expensive than the one you own, too.
That is your position. You want the weaker system for more money.