Nearly half the money spent at US retail on desktop PCs goes to Apple

Beta News ^ | Published November 25, 2009, | by Joe Wilcox

[thecodont]

In a subway station in a nearby city, the walls are dominated with ads (”I’m a PC”) for the new Windows 7 OS.

“I asked for less crashes. I got less crashes.”

Fewer, not less. Fewer. Don’t these Microsoft people do a grammar check on their ads?

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Don’t these Microsoft people do a grammar check on their ads?"

Maybe the same folks in charge of software validation do their spell-checks?

In all fairness, Apple's "Funnest iPod Ever" and "Think Different" were pretty grammatically incoherent too...

[thecodont]

In all fairness, Apple's "Funnest iPod Ever" and "Think Different" were pretty grammatically incoherent too...

It's possible (here I am granting Apple artistic license) that they meant "funnest" in an ironic sense, and "Think Different" as "Think [of something] Different" but I am being generous.

Apple might mean to say something in a cheeky sense, but Microsoft tends to say the same thing soberly, and ends up doing a pratfall.

A year or so ago, Apple had a "Sneak Peak" Web page of an upcoming software release, but someone wrote in with a grammar complaint, and it was corrected to read "Sneak Peek." They really should have known better to check the Web page before making it go live like that.

[coconutt2000]

That’s a much better definition of market share if I’ve ever heard of one.

[Crusher138]

I have heard from many that they want a computer to hook up to their new wide screen TV. They think they have thought of something new when they ask me to build a computer for their living room that will surf the web, play games, etc. while using a wireless keyboard and mouse.

I think people are “working” with laptops, while the (formerly) desktop computers are becoming entertainment machines.