On 4 Feb 2007 at 22:54, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Right. Sort of my point, except I was trying to point
out that
Apple's offering survived more than one round of "my X is better than
your X".
Probably due to the aggressive Apple educational program. An Apple
in every school. Kids come out of school, they want Apples.
Sometimes known as WYLIWYK (What you like is what you know).
In retrospect, this was curious, because during the 60's, it was IBM
who actively pursued academia with special discounts on big iron.
Cheers,
Chuck