But I said variants. But, if you take MacOS out, the statement remains.
And seeing that iOS is now running Microsoft Office a version of Photoshop and is using more powerful processors than most x86 based PCs, we can complete take out MacOS and just iOS.
I said nothing about popularity, I was saying successful. Success in a business isn’t marketshare or popularity its profitability. Seeing how little profit that OEMs are making selling either Android devices (most of whom are losing money - except for Samsung) or PCs, I wouldn’t be surprised that Apple is more successful than all of the PC makers combined selling Macs and its well known that Apple captures more than 70% of the profit in mobile.
A company can’t stay viable based on “marketshars”. Next am I arguing what’s “best”. Do you think Dell would rather be in Apple’s position with “market share” or Apple’s in Dell’s?
There are plenty of people whose only personal computing device is their phone either by choice or necessity. Heck I am a developer and the only thing I use my computer at home for is as a Plex server.
It’s on my list to get a powerful enough NAS to transcode movies and I won’t even use it for that. I’ll run Plex and bit torrent (to uhh download Linux ISO’s) and B2 backed cloud backup app directly on it.
My wife gave her computer to our son because she uses her iPad for everything including Office.
Now that Apple (finally) supports a mouse, I connect my same Bluetooth keyboard+mouse to my iPad that I use for my work computer when I bring it home.
The people you know. Not everyone can afford to buy a desktop computer, and for many of these people a phone is their primary computing device.