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

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Apr 27 01:51:42 2002

The most obvious one is, "I've seen it demonstrated that it can do what I
want." That doesn't say something else won't do that, but just that he's not
seen it. That's a compelling influence. Now, if you, like most folks, had
never seen a workstation, or, for that matter, any other sort of computer, and
someone showed you one that did what you needed done, and you were tasked to
buy a computer that day, what would you do?

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Smith" <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:53 AM
Subject: RE: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)


> > -----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
>
> /usr/bin/perl -e '
> print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
> '
>
>
>
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