25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
9:53 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: r. 'bear' stricklin [mailto:red@bears.org]
I have worse news: today, it's called a Macintosh.
Before you
argue with
me, consider that nobody in their right mind would want to
buy a computer
with less than 10% market penetration, without a pretty
compelling reason.
Having considered that, I've decided that the fact that it's a
very nice system, and you prefer it to a Macintosh is a compelling
reason to buy a system with less than 10% market penetration. Of
course, there's also the "which market" argument, which I don't
think I have to get into...
I find that most Mac users I talk to have compelling
reasons
for owning
Macs. People that want a PC will buy a PC. People that want a
They like them; indeed, that's a compelling reason. No matter how
good the system is, you can't do a thing with it if you're not
comfortable with it. (well, ok, you can, but it's much harder)
Mac will buy
a Mac. People that want a computer will buy a PC (though IMO
they would be
better served with Macs, but that's solely my own opinion and
They certainly would, though that's not really high praise for
Macintosh. They'd be better off with an Atari 400. :)
People buy peesees for one of four reasons:
They favor them -- usually because they've never seen anything else.
Their friend-who-knows-everything-about-computers likes them (yeah...)
Everybody else is doing it
They don't know that anything else exists
I can't think of another reason to buy a peesee. Personally, I'm
much happier with my used workstation than I would be if I'd bought
a peesee at the same time, for about twice the money.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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