slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
They have been able to downplay and divert attention away from these basic facts because the lie they were sold is one of endless computing abundance, and as long as that continued to be true at ~roughly the same price every year for them and their mates, the trick worked.
Mac price rises are popping the narrative, but do fuck-all to the situation on the ground. It has *always *been true that businesses couldn't afford to turn away customers who showed up with the "wrong" device.