Larry Gusaas wrote:
ccornell - OpenOffice.org, 2008/06/11 1:28 AM:
jonathon wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:28 AM, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote:
I say only because when in the last 20 years have you gone into a
consumer electronics store or a dedicated home
AFAIK, computers at _The Apple Store_ have never shipped with a
Microsoft operating system.
Yes.. and? Were were talking about computers that ran Windows XP, and
why people were trying so hard to save XP... not about Apple Computers.
But you made the fallacious statement "I say only because when in the
last 20 years have you gone into a consumer electronics store or a
dedicated home computer shop and found anything but some version of
Windows?" Computers at Apple Stores have never had windows. Apple
computers have been available at many computer stores over the last 20
years. You were the one that took the subject beyond saving XP with your
erroneous statement.
Oh for cryin' out loud - everyone knew that the heck he meant and that
it is for all intent and purpose close enough to the truth to be used in
the fashion he used it in.
In the county I live in there is one / exactly one / store you can
purchase a mac in...it is not what the average person would refer to as
a consumer electronics store. Which by the way is not the store one goes
to if you want to find some friendly Linux help..but that is an aside.
I can drive 73 miles to the closest Best Buy and get one...I believe.
Over the time frame he used, 20 years, Apple was extremely stingy in the
channels they would allow their computing products to be sold through.
It was part of a deliberate and well executed marketing plan used to
create a certain aura around the brand, it was also used to maintain the
highest possible price point for the product lines.
Is Apple more 'open' these days on the computing side of the
business..yes, but this is recent. For the vast majority of time it has
been the king of 'closed' - closed hardware, closed software and closed
distribution channels.
So - even if one did want to drive to the next county to buy their
daughter a "Scotch Apple" to do her school work on - still could not do
so for less then an average months 'gross' salary or more - on the other
hand they could stroll into the local "retail chain giant" and out again
with a fully functional PC from HP, or e-Machines..et al. for about a
weeks 'net' pay check. Well - except it would be a little shy of RAM for
Vista, but not XP...and it would be missing one other important piece of
equipment - a first class piece of software to produce that home work with.
Which brings us finally the subject that this list is supposed to be
dealing with, OpenOffice.org.
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