Comment on Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly'
ericisshort@lemmy.world 8 months agoWhy be so unnecessarily pedantic though? Mac/PC has been a ubiquitous colloquial distinction for 20+ years, and it’s one that both Mac and non-Mac vendors have leaned into for a very long time. This isn’t in no way a new trend, and you’re not going to change a single person’s vernacular with this ackchyually, so why go out of your way to be that guy?
srecko@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Because sometimes prople don’t want to play into biggest corp’s in the world marketing scheme. It is a personal computer.
ericisshort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s revisionist history. “Mac” and “Linux machine” were used to distinguish them from the overwhelming majority of windows computers that were commonly referred to as PCs years before the “I’m a Mac/Im a PC” ads. As I said, Apple simply leaned into that already established trend. I remember when I was in high school around the turn of the Millenium, vendors like CompUSA would have an Apple section separate from the PC section. Apple was nowhere close to the largest corp in the world back then, and they did not have the selling power to make any retailer follow their ample propaganda until much much later.