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Amen, brother.  The Harvard environment abounds with Mac's.  I have
never understood the arrogant jerks who tout their PC's as being better
simply because they are less user friendly than Mac's.  It is like
insisting that Boston is a great place to drive because the traffic and
drivers are so bad.  I use Mac's, PC's, and Sun's and have found each to
have strengths and weaknesses.  The Mac is an outstanding computer and
my own choice for spectral analysis, graphics, and word processing - 90%
of what I do.  Anyway, we should be applauding those who create software
for any computing platform instead of going out of our way to criticize
them.  (What software have you written and distributed lately, "Uncle
Al"?)  I welcome software written for the Mac platform.  We need more,
not less.

- Kenneth R. Metz, Ph.D.




Dane Spearing wrote:
> 
> 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."