At 09:10 PM 9/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>There was never any O/S or GUI war. After the PC and MS-DOS, Apple never
>owned any serious hearts and minds except for a few niches like desktop
>publishing and graphics design. DR's GEM was never a serious contender,
I disagree. There are plenty of people who are mac fanatics (or
Atari/Amiga/Etc fanatics) but because their employer/school/software
requires MS/PC stuff, they switch. The vast majority of people who really
don't care one way or another; they just use whatever they have at
work/school/etc, or whatever their grandson said they should get, or even
what the guy at circuit city said they should use.
Personally, I feel the lack of Mac Clones is what kill^h^h^h^h wounded the
Mac. An awful lot of people 10-15 years ago looked at buying a full-price
Mac, a Full-price IBM/Compaq/Etc, and a PC's Limited clone, and let their
budget do the choosing. I know I did -- I bought a used clone motherboard
and case, added a disk drive, brand-x video card with a composite monitor,
and so on. There's no way I (or a lot of other people) could afford, let
alone justify the cost of a name brand computer. (The same is true, to a
lesser extent of the Atari ST (which was also hampered by Tramiel) and
possibly the Amiga.)
>nobody has mentioned the real reason for the success of Windows 3.x:
>Solitaire. Just as sex videos made VHS a standard, Solitaire is the one
>thing that kept users from simply deleting Windows 3.0 after the standard
I agree completely on this. Although, I explained its inclusion as a tool
to help people get used to the concept of and to practice with the mouse.
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Received on Fri Sep 18 1998 - 03:46:37 BST