The average consumer doesn’t consider any of that.
I’d guess lots of people upgrading from Intel Macs and to some extent PCs now that Apple Silicon Macs are hitting their stride.
I’d guess lots of people upgrading from Intel Macs and to some extent PCs now that Apple Silicon Macs are hitting their stride.
But it turned out that was just the intermediate step between "quit gunking up our OS with so much awful garbage and spyware" and "because it should be gunked up with our awful garbage and spyware."
When I Google that the first result is from the Verge, and they recommend a MacBook Air because "The Apple MacBook Air M3 is the best laptop for most people — Mac users, of course, but also the platform-agnostic or anyone who wants a no-fuss, straightforward machine that doesn’t bombard them with advertisements or bloatware."
Why would you guess that? It's +22% Mac marketshare, not +22% Apple Silicon Mac marketshare.
Per a sibling commenter, Apple did still sell Intel Macs throughout Q1 '23, so it's possible for the earlier set to have been Intel and the later to have been M-series, which we could count as the upgrades you describe. Intuitively it seems difficult to imagine very many people would have done this, but to set an upper bound we would need M-series vs. Intel share figures for Q1 '23.