• akilou@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    Well, what is hundreds of thousands as a percentage of the overall market? Like if they sold hundreds of thousands of grains of rice, that’s “almost nothing” compared to the rest of the rice that got sold

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      5 hours ago

      “Most of the market” includes the segments of commercial support contracts for office laptops which Framework doesn’t even target. Then you have the next biggest which is "go to Costco/Walmary/bestbuy and get what is on sale. So Framework simply cannot be a majority brand without those.

      Among the remaining segment, e.g., developers that get to shop around and buy whatever they want? Its fairly popular.

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      6 hours ago

      In no context is hundreds of thousands of people “almost nobody”.

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        I mean, Dell is the #3 in laptop sales and sells roughly 30 million laptops per year. So yeah, Framework is roughly 0% of market share. I know this is a very tech enthusiast heavy website, but there are certain realities that people should face. It’s like saying Nothing Phone is going to remotely compete with Apple. It’s not a fair or valid comparison in the first place. I think a more fair comparison for Framework (beyond what they are hoping to achieve) would be with a small system builder like System 76, XMG or the likes.

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          5 hours ago

          This is not a reality anyone needs to “face”, it’s just an intentionally poor choice of words.