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"We all" aren't moving away from Apple, while I have many issues with the current direction and product offerings, the platform still works for me. So maybe it really is just "All - Me" but my distinct impression is that it is a noisy cohort in the blogverse that has seized upon this as the trend du jour.

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Yes it's a ridiculous statement.

I'm still using my MBA 11" from 2012 for everything. I have only 4GB RAM and it's not even a problem to work (I don't have 15 VMs running in background). :)) I have no idea when I'm going to change it and for what, but I have absolutely no desire to move back to Windows or Ubuntu.

And there is no way I move away from iOS. It works great for me. Plus, I use my iPhone 6 mostly for gaming and I've been buying games since the 3GS so I've a huge collection (including a bunch of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest titles that are quite expensive).

The last bit sounds more like stockholm's syndrome. Vendor lock-in shouldn't be a happy thing.

That's exactly what it is. I only hear about this nonsense on HackerNews and related sites. In The Real World, I haven't seen an increase in people abandoning MacOS for Linux or Windows, just the usual dev that claims "I've switched to Linux as my main OS and it's been great", then two weeks later you learn that dev has switched back to Mac.

As far as mobile goes, I've actually seen an increase in people moving back to iOS from Android.

You're not wrong. The idea was not for the article to be a statistically correct report of the present day status. That's easy to get and Apple's marketshare is nowhere near bad.

This is a decades-long reflection on computer history as a whole, having Apple as protagonist and important player.

The title reflects where the early-adopters - the same people that brought Apple back from the dead in the late 90's - will go from here.

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