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by pjmlp 34 days ago
Apple fans live in a bubble, crushed what?

Apple doesn't do servers, they decided to get out of that market.

Apple decided it doesn't care about workstation market any longer.

The desktop market worldwide is about 10%.

The mobile devices market worldwide is about 30%.

Sure it crushed, in the few countries where Apple rules like North America.
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tracerbulletx 33 days ago
If you dont think apple silicon and rosetta rollout was a massively successful and high difficulty technical accomplishment I dont really know what to tell you. Just look at the windows ecosystems attempts to roll out arm devices. I can still use my 900 dollar m1 macbook air for almost anything and I have a desktop computer with 128gigs of memory and a 5090. And the battery lasts for days to the point I barely think of charging it. And my m5pro work laptop is just basically a perfect device. I think I use enough platforms to be a fair judge. I also detect the sloppiness in some of the software, im just saying in comparison its a pretty minor issue and theyre still executing way above the alternatives.
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pjmlp 33 days ago
Apple has been doing it since the Power PC days, hardly news.

As did Alpha with Windows NT x86 executables.

It was impressive back in the 1990's.

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malshe 33 days ago
Apple detractors also live in a bubble. Apple was always after profit share not market share. They have 20% market share for mobile devices globally, which is still the highest among all the brands. But their profit share is an estimated 80%. How’s that not crushing it? Btw they don’t have to be in every product market under the sun. It’s a bizarre observation. Getting out of the businesses where they don’t have margins perfectly makes sense.
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pjmlp 33 days ago
20% of the market doesn't last forever, eventually those people are gone from planet Earth.

Ferrari isn't crushing it, regardless how you sell their profits over the car industry.

Apple wants to be the Ferrari from computers, which cuts their growth opportunities.

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F7F7F7 31 days ago
Last time someone cared to measure they owned 98% of the $1,000+ PC market. If that number ever slips you should offer your services to them.
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