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Comment Exactly the opposite of the 1984 ad ! (Score 5, Insightful) 243

The 1984 ad began with a black-and-white world of machines and metal, devoid of creativity, and ended with a living, colorful human smashing a screen with a giant hammer.
This 2024 ad begins with a colorful depiction of human creativity and ends with a giant hammer crushing everything into a black-and-white metal machine.
Over the past 40 years, has Apple lost its way?

Comment Much worse will happen soon will 1 billion PCs (Score 1) 102

Microsoft will end public support for Windows 10 on May 14, 2024.
Windows 11 only supports PCs that have specific requirements that have only been widely available since mid-2016 (such as TPM 2.0).
Between 2010 and 2016, there were 300 million PCs sold per year, or a total of 2 billion PCs sold, most of them with Windows.
Probably half of these PCs still work perfectly. If they are properly optimized, their power is still more than enough for most home uses: browsing, watching videos, reading emails, playing some simple games...
This means that in one year, due to Microsoft's bad practices in planned obsolescence, 1 billion computers will not be maintained anymore.

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