[opendtv] Re: I'm starting to feel sorry for, and worry about, Apple

  • From: Kon Wilms <konfoo@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:39:07 -0700

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Windows won for two MAJOR reasons:

Cherry picking. You convenient leave out many other important 'wins'
for the PC 'market', like the fact that most if not all (I think there
was one for the Mac) BBS software ran exclusively on PCs. Or the fact
that even though Amiga had the upper hand over both PC and Mac for
games, it still lost out. Or the fact that yes there was certification
for PC server-side and well, the Mac had no server platform at that
time. The PC vs. Mac market is not as black and white as you attempt
to make it out to be.

> Meanwhile Apple was trying to tell customers that they did not need the IT
> guys to make things work. They ran ads that flaunted the fact that a two man
> shop could hook up some Macs and run circles around Windows based PCs.

Ha. You could do the same thing with a PC. That was the whole point.

Cheers
Kon
 
 
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