If Apple Mac shipments dropped more than 40% in the first three months of 2023, then I wonder how bad are the numbers for tablets and smartphones shipments? No one I know got themselves a new Apple tablet or smartphone recently. People must be saving to put food on the table instead or to paying for the heating/water/electricity/tuition/insurances/medical bill.
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Cloud Linux. All you need is keyboard and monitor and wifi.
Developers use Macbooks, but since most of the development these days is for services running on Linux, it makes more sense to develop on a Linux machine. I would rather have a Linux laptop for work. Hopefully Linux laptops will become more accepted in companies, especially since desktop Linux is good now.
So, macbook shipments are now back to pre-pandemic levels? Sure ... LET'S ALL PANIC!!!
The pandemic created all kinds of weird incentives and temporary demand-side perturbations. The googles and facebooks bought up macbooks like candy, not to mention all the folks WFH.
" shipments of smartphones will decline 1.1% in 2023 to 1.19 billion units, down from the 2.8% growth in the prior forecast as market continues to suffer from weak demand and ongoing macroeconomic challenges. "