Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Thu Apr 25 09:53:53 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r. 'bear' stricklin [mailto:red_at_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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