At 4:40 PM -0700 5/6/98, Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
>At 05:06 PM 05/06/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>it happens when we start comparing the two products feature-for-feature..
>>somewhere along the line, they'll say, with the air of someone playing a
>>trump, "put NT on your Mac.. you'll have a multitasking OS." i have to
>>admit, it *has* ended the discussion, every time.. but only because it's
>>hard to talk while staring in slack-jawed disbelief.
>>
>>is there some sort of myth in the PC world that the Mac OS is still a
>>single-tasking operating system? for the record, it's not.. we've had
>>cooperative multitasking since System 6.0.8 back around, oh, '90.
>
>Michael, the only explanation I have is that this demonstrates the power of
>marketing over reality. Apple has failed abominably at getting the word out
>as to what Macs can do. Microsquish has assembled a marketing juggernaut
>that just rolls over everything in its path. Most people simply don't know
>any better.
Well -- the fact is that MS has the best "hot air" machine in the industry.
And the press (WSJ types) have held Apple to a different "standard" than MS
... just look at the difference in headlines.
Perhaps Mac owners are a lot like women <g> ... being a cultural minority,
that is.
Sociological research shows that women in general (and men-of-color) have a
better understanding of both /their/ culture and other cultures, including
dominant culture (ok, I'm talking US here). OTOH, white males often don't
even understand their own culture, much less that of those "other" people.
Please don't ask me for the citation -- I forget which psychology book this
comes from. But this is research based, not anecdotal.
Kathy
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