Sony believed that they had so much market share that they could make a console that was leaps and bounds more complicated to code for, which would lock devs in and prevent them from going elsewhere, and they’d just have to suck it up because of said market share. Sony was wrong, and they lost out big time that generation (although they did manage to win the Blu-ray vs hd-dvd format wars).

Microsoft seems to believe they have so much market share that they can force people to upgrade to a privacy invading, ai infested piece of crap, and that everyone needs to suck it up because market share.

I’ve already started hearing wind that people, in statistically significant numbers, are finding alternatives… so is this the same situation as the ps3?

Just a passing musing without much to back up the gut feelings.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    9 hours ago

    As someone who went through this, I would honestly take Window 11’s bs over pos unusable mac.

    First time ever I think I felt pain in my wrist from using a trackpad. Absolute clownshow of a UX

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I’ll agree that Apple is the big red nose on a much larger clownshow, but… between Microsoft and Mac, I’ll just say that I’ve got a request in with IT for a MacBookPro when funding becomes available. Some of that is because our IT has crippled Windows beyond its usual hobbled state, which is bad enough, and they haven’t hit the OS-X image as hard. But, even so, bone stock Windows 11 on a modern desktop i7 still has HORRIBLE performance issues that OS-X generally doesn’t suffer from. Intrusive virus scanning, intrusive file indexing, intrusive cloud backup… Apple does these things, but generally does them a bit better (though the clowns do mess up plenty along the way.)

      I’ve used Ubuntu as my desktop for the past 15 years, it’s a different kind of clownshow - one that I prefer to the other two choices, but it has definite flaws of its own.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 hours ago

      Interesting. I’ve got of gripes with Apple hardware (price, upgradability, silly things like notches and Touch Bars,) but trackpads has never been one of them. I’ve always thought the’ve had some of the best trackpads.

      What trackpad do you prefer and why?

      • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Oh no the trackpad itself is actually pretty okay. Its the fact that I have to drag a ridiculous length for the subsequent input to match on screen, even with the highest sensitivity setting.

        Apple’s ingenious design was to make the trackpad feel like a 1:1 representation of your display, which is why its so huge.

        And since way too much stuff in MacOS is functional around mouse clicks, I was constantly swiping all over the place for basic functions.

        I think apple users kind of got used to using only their arm, but thats hard for me to do since I’m used to regular old trackpads and mice.

        EDIT: Comparatively, I’m fine one something like a thinkpad or even a very cheap HP notebook, so long as the OS or Application UX is cool enough to keep things sensible.

        • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          18 minutes ago

          Weird. I never noticed that. I bump mine up a bit from the default, but I don’t max it out. That’s way too fast for me to handle.

          I do know there are ton of apps that will override the defaults. I think the OG better touch tool will let you max that thing to warp speed.