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Re:iOS 11 reviewed by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:07AM (#15285274)
I think Apple has a far greater advantage than MS did (if not quite the marketshare, although the markets are different). MS was never seen as 'cool' or an aspirational status symbol like Apple products are.
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Re:iOS 11 reviewed by pjmlp on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:09PM (#15287220)
> MS was never seen as 'cool' or an aspirational status symbol like Apple products are.

Sure it was.

In Portugal during the 90's, there were lots of CS students applying to work there.

Apple not so much, specially since they were about to close, and except for the Interlog shops in Lisbon, it was almost impossible to get an affordable device in a country where the average salary was about 400 euros on today's money.

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Re:iOS 11 reviewed by sgift on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:19PM (#15285989)
Fair point. I always thought that was mainly due to Steve Jobs, but so far it looks like they're able to stay one without him.
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