🚀 go-pugleaf

I usually don't like to get in to the PC vs Mac holy war, since
I belive it to be pointless, but I just couldn't let this one go.

First off, Apple's market share is closer to 10%.  Secondly, this
reflects the market share of all personal computers sold to all
industries and does not accurately reflect the use of Macintosh
computers in the University and scientific research environments.

After having visited a number of national labs, universities, 
and scientific research organizations, based on personal
observation, I would estimate that Apple's market share among
the scientific research community is somewhere in the neighborhood
of 50-70%.  Now that Apple clones are being manufactured, I would 
expect the market share to grow.

I think that the makers of CrystalDesigner have targeted the 
appropriate market.

There have been Apple "death-watchers" predicting the doom of Apple
for nearly two decades now, and guess what....the company is still
there.
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In article <32FB5CB3.3BFC@ix.netcom.com> \, UncleAl0@ix.netcom.com writes:
>Ah, guys, this is absolutely wonderful except Apple hardware is about 3%
>of the installed PC hardware infrastructure.  Why do you program for a
>dead market?
>
>Apple blunted its tax bite by donating unsalable obsolete inventory to
>schools for full price charitable write-off.  Nobody in his right mind
>uses Apple hardware unless,
>
>   1) You are into heavy graphics manipulation, such as creating Babylon
>5.
>   2) You are into heavy MIDI, with the groupies lined up outside,
>   3) You are too stupid to maximize the power of your hardware for its
>price.
>   4) You have a fetish.
>
>Good luck on getting back your investment.  The only things worse than
>Mickeysoft products are labelled "IBM."