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True enough. And very accurate about the mouse.

But at least the touch bar was honestly pretty great. It happened to arrive with a generation of MBPs that killed all their ports and ruined the keyboard, which is what people more hated.

The Apple Watch seems to be the only smart watch I see around - though granted smart watches are not as ubiquitous as smart phones.

MacOS is tricky because it just feels like if it wasn't for Office at The Office, it would have just fully won...




> The Apple Watch seems to be the only smart watch I see around - though granted smart watches are not as ubiquitous as smart phones.

From some quick Googling, while they are the biggest player by far, they have around 23% of the smartwatch market. And as far as I have seen, other smartwatches are not so similar to the Apple Watch as Andoid is to iOS.

> MacOS is tricky because it just feels like if it wasn't for Office at The Office, it would have just fully won.

MacOS is tied to extremely expensive hardware, so it was never going to win. And Apple never actively pushed for training on Macs like MS did, so there are many orders of magnitude more pieces of software exclusive to Windows than to MacOS. Office may be MS's crown jewel, but there is giant long tail of Windows software that dwarfs even Unix, not to mention MacOS in particular.


Macs also simply lack many things you want in corporate office from manageability standpoint, compared to Active Directory with GPO.


You see more apple watches than other because it's one of the smart watches that can't be mistaken for a normal watch.

I see quite a lot of people using smart watches due to actively going to gym (where a lot of people use them for fitness tracking etc).

A lot of them are hard to recognise as smart watch unless you know the specific model already, or catch someone interacting with it. The ones I and my partner uses are similarly "invisible" (Garmin Fenix series).

In comparison, Apple Watch is the kind where it's immediately obvious you see an apple watch or something that apes its design.




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