Re: Why is Apple choosing Google's Gemini to power Siri?

On 2026-01-14 11:12, Joel W. Crump wrote:

On 1/14/26 1:51 PM, Alan wrote:
 

And you cannot take the obvious lesson from this:
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People pay that price because they believe it's WORTH IT.
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And what makes you think must people NEED "24 GB of RAM"
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I'm a very busy user and I'm currently running 9 programs-- including Safari with dozens of tabs open and I still have nearly 2GB free on a 16GB system.
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The fact that your pubescent brain can't get is that people who use Macs find they work very, very well. I've worked with, sold and support both Macs and PCs since the late 1980s and in all that time, I've only encountered two people out of hundreds if not thousands who ever tried a Mac and didn't want to continue on with using it.

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16 GB works fine for me, but when I had 32 GB it was a sweet spot.

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You aren't really able to spot the contradictions you write...
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...are you?

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I didn't contradict myself, it's true that 16 GB is adequate, but it's equally true that I could utilize more.

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Define "sweet spot".

  Having almost no use of virtual memory, not having so much RAM that a lot went unused but not lacking possible coverage.

So then if 32GB is a "sweet spot" you're clearly using lots of virtual memory with half that amount.

 

There's no question Apple is price gouging.

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There's no question that people who buy them don't agree.

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Which is why no one outside the first world has a Mac.

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There is no doubt that Macs are more expensive.
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I've never said they weren't.
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But you're kind of making MY point.
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In North America, Macs make up nearly 25% of personal computer usage:
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<https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america>
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Linux is just a fifth of that, and even if you assume that all of the "Unknown" usage is Linux, it's still only half of Mac usage.

  Apple has a firm place in the market.  But it's despite their greed and questionable standards.  And it can't begin to compete with Linux globally.  Apple is a core brand in the industry to sell overpriced computers.

You really are quite delusional.
There is absolutely no doubt that globally, macOS is still ahead of Linux in usage as a personal computer.