Re: Falling Windows Market Share

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:53:37 -0400, Paul wrote:

The customers on the other hand, are so price sensitive, it's
ridiculous. This is why I'm seeing questions now about NUC-like
boxes. Intel made NUC boxes for a while, the interest was limited to
"rich people". Intel would not drop the price.

Intel was trying to compete with the Raspberry Pi, by offering
products with much less versatility at something like 10× the price.
No wonder they couldn’t compete.

Intel has exited the NUC market, Asus got the formfactor from them.
But now, the pricing is competitive, and the price of these things
will drop into the sewer, and so will the performance. And Intel
gets to sell some of its two-core processors (in the year 2025) -- a
huge money maker, I'm sure.

But NUC still lacks the versatility of the Raspberry Pi. So who is
going to buy these boxes, and why?

Remember Intel’s Atom chips? There they were trying to compete against
ARM in smartphones, tablets etc. But they could never offer a
competitive price on which they could make a profit. Only a small
handful of Android phones with Atom chips were ever made -- I think
only because Intel offered the phone vendors a subsidy to make them.