This is an interesting (and accurate) observation that explains why many in professional positions end up challenged to integrate their work and home GTD systems. When working all day on technology, many want to come home to something that just works. Historically, they are the ones with disposable incomes.
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@mcogilvie As a user of a strange language (Polish) I must tell you that the apps are beautiful but each MacOS update/upgrade is a frightening experience. After such event I am always checking if Polish spell-checker still works. Often it works but sometimes it doesn't and you have to create a new fake user to reset the system to a proper state. It's funny that this new fake user fixes other users.
That probably follows from their orientation to international business. Microsoft and Apple have relatively benign business models, but different. Facebook is amoral on a good day, while Google and Amazon are somewhere in the middle. IMHO.
I had a student years ago who forgot to bring a calculator to the final. I loaned him mine, which was an HP calculator that used Reverse Polish. After the exam, he complained that my calculator was too hard to use, and his grade should therefore be raised.
Proof that no good deed goes uncomplained. He's lucky you didn't offer him a slide rule.
Now that we know that Apple’s M2 chipset is so good, the question is what happens next? The boring business-class Windows on Intel business seems safe for now, but everyone I know in technical fields is lusting after their own M2 system, and it seems clear Apple has software/hardware that scales from smart speakers to very powerful workstations. Anybody who knows what’s going to happen with high-performance computing servers isn’t talking.
What you say may be true, but I don’t think it is particularly relevant. Steve Jobs famously said “It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." Which company is the most valuable company in the world?
@mcogilvie Expensive/inexpensive may be irrelevant in some countries but for example Polish customers are extremely price sensitive. And not only individual customers but corporations and organizations too. The price factor practically always weights ~80% of the overall score in tenders.
The only physical calculator I have is an HP and I bought it specifically for the RPN! Don't actually need a physical calculator, but it's very presence is soothing.
Of course price is usually an issue for most people, but that’s only part of what drives high tech industries. I’ve been involved with high performance computing most of my professional career, and it has been profoundly affected as consumer-driven technology has made possible massively parallel computing and more recently massive GPU use. (GPU stands for graphical processing unit, but they are really good for most kinds of math: science, finance, bitcoin mining.) Apple has shown that ARM-based chips can be a lot better than Intel chips, and is successfully making the switch in laptop/desktop systems. Microsoft has not been able to do this yet. But performance drives volume, which drives price down. There’s always room for appliance-style products (like chrome books) but they don’t have seem to have much impact on the overall market.