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In <pmt-3107950011560001@dialup6.fwi.com> pmt@fwi.com writes:

>In article <3vgaqc$4bv@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, donrawlins@aol.com
>(DonRawlins) wrote:
>
>> 
>> The world is clearly not moving toward Mac.  Rather, it is moving away
>> from it at a progressively increasing pace (market share drop from 10% to
>> 8% last year alone).  Why on earth in this context should Intel and
>> Microsoft feel threatened?
>> 
>Get real! Why in hell is Microsoft spending millions (billions?) of
>dollars trying to get a system which runs like a Mac. Windows95 is really
>Mac89 . Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The world is moving
>towards Mac without realizing it.

I can see little flattery in the fact that a crappy OS is imitated by an
even crappier OS :-)

Anyway, this doesn't change the hard fact that Apple is losing market
share, does it?  And I'm not sure whether it can be used as an explanation
for the loss or not.

But the real point is that the current low prices of the Mac's are due
to the PC competition, while the current low prices of the PC's are due
to the competition between the _many_ PC manufacturers.  If the Mac
would disappear overnight, the PC market would be unaffected, if the PC
would disappear, the Mac prices would go through the roof.

If I were a Mac lover, I'd be grateful to IBM for creating the PC and
allowing its cloning :-)

Dan
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