Apple's most affordable MacBook ever appears to be a resounding hit with customers, based on comments shared by CEO Tim Cook this week. On an earnings call on Thursday, Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo has been "off the charts" since the laptop was unveiled in March. "We could not be happier with how things are going at the moment," he said.
That’s the fun part about monopolies: when you have no real competition you just cut costs and degrade the experience for everyone, but it doesn’t matter because there’s nowhere else for them to go.
Less expensive: yep
Actually fun colors: yep
Windows is worse than ever: yep
It would have been surprising if this thing wasn’t a hit.
windows went all in on AI, and neglected thier other stuff.
In turn Apple went ‘oh fuck what’s an AI now’ and turned out to be the winners. Who would’ve guessed huh.
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
AI is a big part of it but the problem is so much deeper.
Windows went all-in on AI including for internal development, despite removing their dedicated QA teams years ago.
That’s the fun part about monopolies: when you have no real competition you just cut costs and degrade the experience for everyone, but it doesn’t matter because there’s nowhere else for them to go.