Offices focused on the tremendous advantage PCs had over Apple - purchase price on the hardware and the software. Apple was trying to master solutions; PC vendors were trying to offer lowest price combos of hardware and software from many different manufacturers. M$ Windows was their all-purpose, one size fits all glue to hold it all together. But that is all that purchasing departments looked at. Productivity did not impress the purchasing dept. PC manufacturers made more PCs. Apple's master solution configuration has been steadily improving in the interim while the price has become more competitive.
Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- <snip> I was not dissing either, but I was searching for the reason that Mac did not gain the market share that Windows machines have. Windows folks quite often appear to loathe the Mac as much as Mac users often appear want to avoid the Windows platform. So, to rephrase my original sentence, does Apple not have the market share enjoyed by Windows machines because purchasers of computers think the Macs are not only horribly ugly, but are just plain lousy to begin with, or is it because the Mac OS over the years has been perceived to be unstable and therefore almost useless? Or, is it because Apple did not zero in on the office and business environment primarily at the outset, and instead appealed to the more artistically inclined computer user. Or, was there some other primary reason, such as not licensing out, except for a short time, the manufacturing of the machines that the Mac OS runs on? ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
