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176 points mfiguiere | 2 comments | 30 Oct 25 20:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.005s | source
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haunter ◴[30 Oct 25 21:04 UTC] No.45765331[source]▶
Kind of telling that

1, the iPhone outsells every other category by 5-7x ratio, and the Mac (which includes everything from Macbooks to Mac Minis to iMacs) barely sells more than the iPad.

2, Services (iCloud, apps, music, TV shows etc.) now bigger than every other category, except the iPhone, combined

Basically 76% of the sales are iPhones and Services

(millions)

iPhone $209,586

Mac $33,708

iPad $28,023

Wearables, Home and Accessories $35,686

Services $109,158

Total $416,161

Next 5 years or so (or even less) both the iPad and the Wearables, Home and Accessories category will overtake the sales of Macs.

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xfour ◴[30 Oct 25 21:15 UTC] No.45765469[source]▶
Seems like the obvious reason for this is that Mac is now a niche for people that operate computers, where there are likely 6 people that don't for every 1 that does. We keep hearing that the next generation is "true computer" illiterate.

The second reason is likely that there are computers that are 1/3 of the price subsidized by the terrible ad-supported OS installs. (Has anyone tried to setup a MS computer lately, it's an ad-box).

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MrGilbert ◴[30 Oct 25 21:40 UTC] No.45765701[source]▶
> We keep hearing that the next generation is "true computer" illiterate.

We had that development with cars. 40 years ago, it was common to fix your own car. Nowadays, we have a subscription for seat warmers. The manual tells you to visit the dealer to get your brakes checked. Makes me sad, somehow. But people have choosen this path as a collective.

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lostlogin ◴[31 Oct 25 22:17 UTC] No.45777300[source]▶
> Makes me sad

On one hand, yes. But also, cars are now an appliance. They rarely break, can be bought quite cheaply (if that’s what you want) and consume little time. I like this.

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1. asdff ◴[31 Oct 25 22:40 UTC] No.45777497[source]▶
Except they are 2020s appliances with bells and whistles and reinventing the wheel for no reason with electronic wizzbangs and dohickeys and layers and layers of complexity. Your car in the 90s was the appliance. Simple electronic system. Reliable simple ICE engine. Simple gearbox. Easy to work on which means even if you don't work on your own car it helps you, because labor takes less time and therefore repair shop bills are lower. Parts back then were widely shared across a manufacturers lineup so readily available and relatively cheap. 4 cylinder economy car was practically a commodity back then.
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2. lostlogin ◴[01 Nov 25 03:48 UTC] No.45779106[source]▶
I drive a second generation Leaf.

We will see if it lives up to the promise, but the dealer said ‘don’t bother’ when I asked about serving.

So far that has held true, but it’s early years.