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Re:China is the manufacturing superpower by Barrin92 on Saturday January 04, 2025 @12:15PM (#42596054)
What does that mean? There's no consistent Apple experience across Spotify, Venmo, TikTok and Facebook. There's pretty consistent experiences within these apps across devices, which is what people care about. Nobody cares about their operating system except for that one middle aged developer who loves that his apps look native on his macbook. But that's not why people buy phones.
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Re:China is the manufacturing superpower by seanmcdirmid on Saturday January 04, 2025 @01:17PM (#42596565)
People buy phones for good stable experiences. I’m not sure how it was today, but it was a mess 10 years ago outside of iPhones, and some people would rather pay more for a phone than bother with something by that requires more involvement.
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Re:China is the manufacturing superpower by wiseowise on Saturday January 04, 2025 @02:29PM (#42597027)
If that was the case, then Android would have bigger share in developed countries.

> Nobody cares about their operating system except for that one middle aged developer who loves that his apps look native on his macbook.

Nobody* cares.

* - 34% desktop share and 15% worldwide.

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Re:China is the manufacturing superpower by Barrin92 on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:06PM (#42597309)
>If that was the case, then Android would have bigger share in developed countries.

How does that follow? I'm saying people buy Apple products for their premium hardware, which rich consumers are more likely to do across all categories. If software mattered, Apple would be losing customers across the board because people spend more and more time in non-Apple software. It's the exact opposite of my claim.

>* - 34% desktop share and 15% worldwide.

I don't think you even understood what I said to be frank, I didn't argue Apple's marketshare, we are talking about where the value in their poduct is, I didn't argue that people dislike their products.

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