Christina WarrenPeople like me are too deep into the Apple ecosystem to ever reasonably leave. Until/unless they fully neuter macOS, I’m here for life. And I’ll realistically never use Android. But the next generation of users might use an iPhone, but they also rely on the web and services from other companies. They use Chromebooks. They don’t have a reason to “root” for Apple the same way I did as a kid. And that’s how platforms change and ecosystems fall off. https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/112955398796903001
Like a lot of 90s kids, I grew up on Windows at home but used Macs at school and switched to Macs in college during the 2000s. We bought iPods, not Zunes. MacBooks, not Vista. iPhones, not Windows Phones (or Windows Mobile). iPads, not Android tablets. But 2010s kids have other options. And Apple’s odious decisions like making macOS worse, being ratfuckers about the App Store (while still approving/promoting scam apps) doesn’t win over the loyalties of the next-generation of big-money users.
John Weston@film_girl Super important here also is that “used Macs at school” isn’t something anyone after our generation will say. I teach in the last remaining Mac lab in a district of 400k people, and when I’m gone it’s gone too.
@unsoluble absolutely! Kids grow up on Chromebooks and Google accounts and web browsers. Way harder to instill brand loyalty when most of what you use is a web browser.