From: Geoffrey Loeffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well we can hope that Apple comes out with faster machines, I have read these articles too, but Apple has lagged in getting things out the door on time or anywhere near the predicted release dates i.e.,. 10. not really ready for prime time.
That may have been true two years ago, but it's certainly not true today. OS X is *far* superior to WinXP (or is WinXP "not ready for prime time" either?), and in fact several PC magazines have run comparison articles and said as much (or that it is at least a bit superior).
A. Windows does not now nor EVER HAS had a 98% majority. At best, it is more like 75%. And that's counting ALL iterations of Windows, including DOS.They may be able to live in the 2% bracket, but we are not discussing cars, we are discussing a machine which must be compatible with the rest of the work the world does, if we get pushed out by the 98% percent majority we are in trouble.
B. Macs have ALWAYS had a high level of compatibility with Windows machines. I exchange Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files with PC users, pictures, video, audio ... all without issue. The only difference is that my stuff LOOKS BETTER and DOESN'T CRASH or GET VIRUSES, ergo I'm at least twice if not three times as productive as PC people doing the same thing. I'm *glad* they don't know how great Macs are ... it's what gives me a competitive edge and allows me to charge more for my services!
You know, people say this all the time -- "Microsoft knows marketing better."They do cheat, steal, and squash good ideas, but they do marketing better, Apple missed that boat..
What a load. If Microsoft were as good as marketing at all that, they'd have persuaded us to switch by now.
Microsoft's ad campaigns are famous for being dismally ineffective and laughably bad. Remember the XP campaign that promised that if you upgraded to XP you would gain the ability to levitate off the ground??
The truth is, Microsoft are *terrible* marketers. What they DO know how to do very well is break the law, lie and spread misinformation, and bribe IT managers with promises of job security. THAT is how they got and keep their hold on the unimaginative and morally-bankrupt world of enterprise and IT-level computing. They are not the best, they are "good enough for gov't work" as the saying goes.
This is nothing new in this world. Ford and GM sell several hundred TIMES the number of cars that, say, Ferrari does. Few people are stupid enough to argue that Ferrari is a superior car in every important respect to a Ford, but the Ferrari cannot hit the price/"good enough" ratio that most people are satisfied with. Result: Boring, mediocre cars have 80% of the road, interesting/well-made/expensive cars carve up the remaining 20% of the pie.
Look at the music world. Five record companies between them sell 80% of all recorded music. The remaining several hundred small/indie labels divvy up the rest. And of course, the five big companies mostly churn out horrible crap music, while the small indies have a MUCH higher quality ratio.
Apple is *not meant* to ever supplant Microsoft, anymore than one day everyone in America is going to wake up, ditch their gas-guzzling, road-hogging, public-menace SUVs and buy much more sensible, safer and comparably-priced Volvos. Apple is *meant* to be the Cadillac of computers.
I wouldn't want it any other way. There's no point in going after the "cheap-ass bastard PC pirate" market.
I have always pushed the Mac because of quality, ease of use, and the ease of troubleshooting.. This was the real beauty of the Mac OS, but the real Mac OS is dead, we are now using UNIX with a Mac eye candy. For techies this might be great but under the GUI eye candy is a very complex system. The average user is going to find this difficult to troubleshoot unless Apple does some serious tweaking. It actually is closer to windoz then Mac..
Here's your Hit Parade of Popular But Completely Untrue Mac OS X Lies #5, 13, and 31. You're a troll who has no idea what the hell you're talking about.
In point of fact, Mac OS X is MUCH easier to troubleshoot and do preventive maintenance on than OS 9. But truth gets in the way of your paranoid scenario so I'll not waste my valuable time explaining it to a simpleton. Go back to OS 9 and stay there and leave us the hell alone. Or better yet, go buy a PC and find out what REAL troubleshooting hell is all about.
I have read the CR reports of Apples products and agree they really do not know Macs, I have sent them letters in the past pointing out huge errors in rating the Mac, so because this one time they say good things CR is right, what about their wrong views of the Mac.
In previous CR reports they have frequently made errors because approach the Mac as if it was just another brand of Windows PC. Ergo, it gets points off for things like "start bar not in expected location" and "there is a learning curve to using a different OS" -- well duh!
This time, CR didn't do the report themselves ... the compiled the results of asking their READERS. That's why this time they finally got it right.
I have had different experiences with Apples Service, far from good..
Given your attitude, I'm not really that surprised.
But still, I suppose we should accept your *ONE* data point as being the true case and ignore those *39,000* other people as being deluded fools. Thank you for showing us the One Truth.
*plonk*
_Chas_
The iTunes Music Store has sold three MILLION songs in one month. If they can maintain that average over the course of a year, Apple will sell more music than any other single music source. And that's BEFORE you add in countries outside the US, and Windows users. Woah.
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