I know, I know. sniffle. Besides, the Rosetta thingy looks interesting, but I suspect it will be around about as long, if not less long, than Classic emulation.
We're gonna need heat shields for aluminum-cased laptops... And, wasn't it you who recently told another poster that s/he was wrong about the 2% marketshare quote? Judy On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Artificial demand is how Apple keeps itself and its vendors in sales. > They can't do it just a 2.5% marketshare, and if you take iPods out of > the picture their revenue position rather bites. > > Apple can only stay afloat by selling the same product to the same > customers over and over. We pay an annual OS X tax of $139, even though > the first two (arguably three) releases were of beta quality. Sure, > there are the occassional switchers. But I doubt many of the 2 million > Tiger sales went to them. > > For vendors, Apple was the only major vendor who transitioned to USB > without continuing support for legacy ports. This created an artificial > demand for new peripherals, and a lot of vendors who were leaving > decided to stay to cash in. Apple needs vendors, vendors need > disproportionate sales to justify the disproportionate R&D. It's good > for everyone -- except the consumer who gets the bill. > > So if we love the Mac platform enough to have endured these things for > so long, is a third set of arbitrary paid upgrades really that much more > expensive than the two we've already paid for? > > Like a friend keeps telling me, "It's an economic democracy: one > dollar, one vote". If we want to vote for Apple we pony up the cash. > > If not, there's always Linux. It's already available for both x86 and > PPC. ;) _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
