The Ledger

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why aren't all 4 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Assertion Contradicted
Sinofsky: Macs account for nearly half of the US laptop market
“Macs are, you know, half the laptop market in the U.S. At this point.”
Steven Sinofsky Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 49:09 Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
Assertion Partly supported
Evans: Active iPad installed base exceeds active Mac base by 2x
“There's probably a 180 to two hundred million iPads in use now, Versus about eighty million Macs, according to Apple.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:54 a16z Podcast | The Micro and Macro of Mobile
Assertion Supported
Andreessen: Pre-1993 PCs and Macs lacked built-in TCP/IP support
“Computers, PCs and Macs up until 93, 94 didn't even come with TCP IP built into the computer, built into the operating system.”
Marc Andreessen Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 40:44 Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
Assertion Supported
Evans: In the early 90s, Mac had more web servers than Linux
“Mac had more share of web servers than Linux, and the World Wide Web was three percent of internet traffic.”
Benedict Evans Nov 16, 2018 ▶ 22:26 The End of the Beginning
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