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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Iunnrais@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Sony believed that they had so much market share that they could make a console that was leaps and bounds more complicated to code for, which would lock devs in and prevent them from going elsewhere, and they’d just have to suck it up because of said market share. Sony was wrong, and they lost out big time that generation (although they did manage to win the Blu-ray vs hd-dvd format wars).

Microsoft seems to believe they have so much market share that they can force people to upgrade to a privacy invading, ai infested piece of crap, and that everyone needs to suck it up because market share.

I’ve already started hearing wind that people, in statistically significant numbers, are finding alternatives… so is this the same situation as the ps3?

Just a passing musing without much to back up the gut feelings.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

They specifically mentioned the enterprise ecosystem.

I would not be surprised at all if Apple's MDM system is less painful to use for smaller businesses than Microsoft's AD and everything attached to it. Hell it might even be nicer for big orgs, but I've never heard of one (apart from the likes of Google) not using AD

Also if you're already dealing with one of those systems, an IT department is probably motivated to not run both and set up interop if they can avoid it

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[–] Rumbelows@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Used to work for Apple in B2B sales.

Granted, this was five years ago, but back then it was sort of the other way round. The deployment at SMB scale worked really well and was also free of charge.

AT enterprise you would need a third-party solution typically, something like JAMF.

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