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Story: Is Apple on the way out?
Posted by: Richard Taylor (Wednesday 13 October 2004, 7:50 PM)
Fascinating article. My advice to you (as if you asked for it!) is to go back to Wintel. Most Mac users are not powerusers such as yourself. Most Mac folks are Mac users BECAUSE they aren't power users.
I remember just before the release of Windows 95 a friend (and superior) at the media company we both worked for ridiculed the Mac GUI. He was a power user whose fingers tickled his DOS keyboard and wonderful things happened on screen. The day after Windows 95 came out, he stole to my office, sniffed at the Mac on my desk (I was able to fight a rear action and keep Macs in the corporate fold, for awhile) and said, "My PC works just like a Mac! Just like it!" A month later I discovered he had returned to tickling his keyboard, working in DOS. He just loved the action.
Mac users, and non-power users in general, are not going to leave Apple for Linux until it "works just like a Mac!" and probably not even then. Windows has never really worked like a Mac and it is there Linux will score because, unlike Mac users who are willing to pay for what they get, the "price of everything, value of nothing" folks on Wintel will jump ship because Linux is close to free.
Ah, now there's a bargain!
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I thought it raised some interesting points but I... James Chiswell Jones -
I don't agree with the assessment that Apple... Matthew -
"It's about what happens when desktop Linux reache... Riot Nrrrd™
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Fascinating article. My advice to you (as if you a... Richard Taylor -
Berlind/Dvorak - what genius! Tom Shaughnessy
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Apple is on the way up, not out.
Linux on the... Douglas Metcalfe
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Just when APPLE seems to be shipping away at the d... M R
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Yawn! you guys must be smoking bad weed. Anonymous
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God, this guy's an idiot. Apple's business has no... Anonymous
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Wow, you're dumb... Anonymous
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The author makes many sound points, but his c... Anonymous
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You miss an important point. OSX is equi... Erik Sandblom -
Brain damage. A brain damaged Editor is the only w... Charles C Gaudette
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Oh wait! You mean the Toyota Prius is catching on... Walter Walnuts
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What does not seem to be mentioned here is the ant... Anonymous
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Funny this article was posted the same day Apple's... Anonymous
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Some good points, but if you look at the "core" Ap... Anonymous
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David, FUD will get you nowhere these days. It loo... Fred Mueggelhopper
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Hahahaha, when will these douchebag journalists le... Anonymous
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On the day that Apple earnings blew away everyones... Anonymous
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My experience as a co-director of IT is that the s... Anonymous
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As others noted, I think you made some good points... Gary
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Apple = simplicity, elegance and detail. Where the... Robert Kortenoeven
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