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by michalf6 1702 days ago
Adding to that, I'm afraid of the world moving away from the PC as a standard. Through a lucky set of circumstances, we were able to enjoy a relatively open and universal compatibility standard of computers for the last several decades.

I'm afraid of the computing world fragmenting again into several walled gardens in the likes of Amiga/Atari of old, nothing being compatible with each other, unable to run code not signed by the manufacturer.

The danger should IMO be obvious, but I watch in terror as my friends happily buy into the M1.
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can16358p 1700 days ago
The real problem is that there is no competition.

Not a fan of Apple here but I use (and admittedly like) their products: I develop apps and iOS is solid on the app landscape, currently we don't even care about Android versions of our apps in almost any project that we use because most people who are "serious" about their apps are on iPhones and iPads. In addition, even though I have the hacker mindset of many out here, at the end of the day I need something reliable and good-looking, and well supported, which Apple has and others don't.

I don't like Apple's user-hostile behavior and would happily love to see some competition. For me:

Apple is bad, Microsoft/Google is worse. So Apple is relatively good.

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katbyte 1700 days ago
PC like desktops are in no danger of going anywhere, there will always be a huge gamer and hobbyist market for them.
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sircastor 1702 days ago
Seeing that, it seems like this is likely cyclical.

We’ll have 20 years of siloed hardware, and then some competitors figure out a way to get a foot in the door, or signed-only systems will become distasteful to consumers and Companies will revert, interoperability will become the norm again.

There are always barriers in computing and society will respond to it.

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wheybags 1700 days ago
You dismiss 20 years of darkness like it's nothing...
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emteycz 1700 days ago
PC-compatible hardware and software is not going anywhere...
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5e92cb50239222b 1700 days ago
Until everyone stops buying it and it becomes a premium thing which the little man like myself simply cannot afford.
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katbyte 1700 days ago
PC like desktops are in _no_ danger of going anywhere. There will always been a huge gamer and hobbies market for them.

Laptops maybe, but the framework laptop is exactly what you want, seems pretty decent, and has a decent chance of taking off.

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