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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by danaris on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:57AM (#26913781)
This has always been the line people use against Apple, at least since the days when it was no longer credible to use the "beleaguered" line on them.

There have been just so many genuine tech news articles of the form, "Future Apple Competitor Product Beats Current, Widely Successful Apple Product".

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by naravara on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:02AM (#26914874)
> There have been just so many genuine tech news articles of the form, "Future Apple Competitor Product Beats Current, Widely Successful Apple Product".

It's the twin brother of all the "Currently, successful Apple product feature technically existed on [not-Apple] Product years ago (even though basically nobody used it)."

People read those articles and conclude it's all marketing hype but never ask themselves why it seems to happen again and again where simply checking off the box for having a specific feature never seems to actually lead to broad adoption. And if it truly is ONLY marketing hype leading to those ecosystem effects, then maybe you should start thinking of marketing hype as a feature?

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