Steve, WADR, none of your reasons sound even remotely right. I would suggest:
1. Development of market share is a choatic process which entails a great sensitivity to initial conditions. You can almost never trace market outcomes (especially when there are oligarchis tendencies) in a simple way to buyer preferences. 2. I have been pricing/buying pc's since the early 90's and never bought a Mac. (until last year). Reason 1: PC' were used at work Reason 2: Price (as well as price of peripeherals) Reason 3: availability of software (not necessarily quality of software) Btw, Since the earliest days Dos-Windows has always been considered unstable and the x86 chipset a real hack with its segmented memory architecture. Btw, I think one of the reasons that Mac-PC debate is so acrimonious is because it folds in real class differences. I was a grunt in the computer industry for five years before I started to get any decent income. Speaking from experience, if you have to save months or longer to buy a computer (and they were expensive in the early days) the price difference between Mac and PC was significant and the TCO arguments irrelevant..(Apple peripeheral were also more expensive). I am by no means a Windows (or Intel) fan-boy. But in my gut, when the tone of advocacy for apples attempts to make a necessary decision (ie, buying a pc because I didn't want to wait save an additional month or two) sound like a dumb decision, I am extremely uncomfortable and understand why this is such a explosive debate.. The flip side of the coin, is that historically Wintel partisans tend to cast Apple users as frivolous, unsophisticated (perhaps unmanly?). What did Rodney King say? Steve Rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 26, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Tony B wrote: > This is such a badly constructed sentence I can't be sure if you're > dissing Apple or Windows. :) Okay. The sentence was not well put together. 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? I can assure you that there are as many, and probably many more Windows fanboys than there are Mac fanboys. I have been informed by numerous Windows users that they would never even consider buying a Mac. Steve ************************************************************************ * ==> 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/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ * ==> 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/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
