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>>5274499
He didn't have to keep drinking the shit eons after he retired and had nothing to do with the company any more. It's common knowledge he went to his grave convinced New Coke was a better product and was obsessed about it to the point of near lunacy.

He screwed up. There was no conspiracy. To paraphrase a certain someone, this is sugar water we're talking about. They tried, they failed. They only survived because their original product was so beloved by the American public.

Go look at the history of Schlitz. They were once the number one beer in the country. Then they tried to pull a New Coke in the 1970s. And also returned to the original formula after a massive backlash. But they weren't that beloved, and the people that dropped them never went back. Today most people don't even know Schlitz exists.

>>5228608
1) Macbooks are more portable than most Windows laptops, and thus more likely to be, you know, actually "ported."

2) People with Apple laptops tend to be more likely to have the money to eat out more/go to Starbucks every day etc.