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On May 24, 2024 at 9:07:34 PM EDT, "vallor" <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 May 2024 18:58:11 -0000 (UTC), Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> wrote
> in <slrnv51oq3.ckoc.SimonJ@silex.localdomain>:
> 
>> On 2024-05-24, Tyrone wrote:
>>> On May 24, 2024 at 12:47:14 PM EDT, "Joel" <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Tyrone <none@none.none> wrote:
>>>>> On May 24, 2024 at 10:03:31?AM EDT, "Andrzej Matuch"
>>>>> <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I agree that they should have compared processors with the same
>>>>>> number of cores. However, the point these reviewers want to make is
>>>>>> that at the price it will cost, the Snapdragon will beat what is
>>>>>> available at the same price from the competition.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If that's all they have then again, Apple has nothing to worry about.
>>>>> Macs have always been "overpriced and underpowered", yet Macs are now
>>>>> 20% of the market and Windows is down to 70%. I remember when it was
>>>>> 4% Macs and 95% Windows.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I think the gains Apple has made in the desktop/laptop market are what
>>>> we've always wanted to see Linux do, but it can't because normal
>>>> people barely know what it is.  macOS, though, is commercial, and
>>>> sleeker than Winbloat, so it offers an alternative people are aware
>>>> of.  I would never again buy a Mac, but I like that they offer
>>>> something to drive M$ toward a better paradigm, competition works.
>>>> Linux remains my style, as a computer nerd, but macOS offers a
>>>> similarly functional OS for more mainstream people.
>>> 
>>> Normal people don't even know what an "Operating System" is. Nor do
>>> they want/need to know.  All they know is Apple laptops look different
>>> from Dell/Lenovo/HP/whoever laptops.
>>> 
>>> The only thing that prevents Linux from becoming useful for mainstream
>>> users is that the people writing it are not really interested in doing
>>> that.  Linux is written by computer geeks for computer geeks. Thus it
>>> appeals to a small subset of computer users. Nothing wrong with that.
>>> It is what it is.
>>> 
>>> It would take a company to take Linux, make it pretty AND easy to use
>>> with lots of standard apps AND well supported AND pre-installed on
>>> computers.
>>> 
>>> Nevermind, Apple already did that.  But they used Unix instead.  Same
>>> idea.
>> Valve and the Steamdeck are doing it too.
> 
> So did Google.  It's called "ChromeOS".

Yes.  But Apple did it first.