[jorvi]

Change “the West” into “mostly America”.

There is still a decent chunk of Apple users in Europe, but it is a far cry from the extreme obsession America seems to have with Apple devices.

[coldtea]

Well, US has a market share for macOS of around 20% and Europe of around 7-8% from what I can find.

I'd also wager the main culprit is the 20-30% price hike of Macs in Europe (in absolute numbers - it's even worse considering the lower wages in most of European countries compared to the US), rather than any particular dislike.

[xp84]

This just gave me a thought.

Perhaps if the EU eventually does something to sufficiently cripple Apple there, maybe Europe can be a hospitable location for a competitor besides Google to get a toehold someday either in smartphones or whatever the successor is. The duopoly sucks.

[ztrww]

macOS is not particularly closed in comparison to Windows, though. The opposite in fact in some ways..