Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 week agoThats not really a good comparison. Fist thing someone does when they buy a smartphone is replace the OS. Same as laptops.
Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 week agoThats not really a good comparison. Fist thing someone does when they buy a smartphone is replace the OS. Same as laptops.
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If you genuinely believe that, you are either living in some kind of serious tech nerd bubble, or you have no idea what replacing the OS means and you’re talking about doing software updates, tweaking settings, and installing apps.
The vast majority of smartphone users probably don’t even realize you can replace the OS, and if they do they probably don’t see the need.
For desktops and laptops, around 71% of them are running windows, somehow I doubt people are buying Linux or Mac laptops just to turn around and install windows on them. Then around 16% of them are running MacOS, and I doubt that any significant number of those are hackintoshes. A fair amount of the remaining 13% or so are probably people who have installed their own OS, but not all, some of them are using ChromeOS, I don’t hear much about people deciding to make their own Chromebook, and some people are buying an off-the-shelf Linux device.