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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Reid Conti
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 03:23
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> >That is why Macintosh has less than 3% of the market share.
> Try 14 in North America, and 9 worldwide - and both are growing.
> Bzzzt! Try again please.

The only number I've seen is 9% -- and its going down, spurred by poor 
sales during the last two quarters.  

I had to laugh this morning when I read an item in the newspaper about 
the mac expo, and how some apple dude high up the corporate ladder 
delivered a speech about how they have the best computers and are 
improving all the time.
Wrong.  First of all, the only thing they're better than pretty much any 
other interface is userfriendlyness which I'd think the people serious 
enough to go to a conference wouldn't bother with anyway.  They're slow, 
expensive, can't multitask.  On top of that, they work on little toys all 
the time and have not changed their interface.  Now, they have a nice 
interface, and I can't shun not changing because unix has functionally 
not changed (although the mac, like unix has had MANY little revisions 
that any groupie would LOVE to point out).  But, the mac, like all GUIs 
has LOTS of improving to go before its seriously useable.


--
Why, yes, it *IS* Linux!
oakley@conti.oz.net
http://www.oz.net/~conti
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From: oakley@conti.oz.net (Reid Conti)
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 11 Jan 1996 03:23:48 GMT
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