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To: cowboyway
I hear that a lot. Then I ask, "Have you ever owned one or even used one?" Most of the time the answer is No. End of discussion.

Sorry. I have owned a Mac (I still own one - an old one). I was factory trained on the Apple II and Apple III product lines and I was also trained on the Apple Lisa. I used to drive a VW van with Apple stickers on it (and I was a Democrat at the time so I perfectly fit the Apple demographic). I used to be a big fan of Apple. But when they went to the one-computer, one-company, one-fuhrer 1984 model they totally lost me (and market share). I worked in the Microcomputer industry back in the early 1980's wild west days - I enjoy working on different platforms. During the 1990's I tried to justify purchasing a Mac (just for the fun of having another platform) but the Mac was inviable in the business community so there was no way to justify it. When my company first launched its web product I tried to get a Mac so we could be certain our product worked correctly on that platform but I could not justify it because in our market - the financial community (Brokers, FA's, investors) the Mac was statistically nonexistent (less than 1% of users).

230 posted on 03/09/2005 12:12:23 PM PST by Last Visible Dog
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To: Last Visible Dog
Sorry. I have owned a Mac (I still own one - an old one). . . . one-computer, one-company, one-fuhrer 1984 model they totally lost me (and market share).

Whow... you base your opinions on your experiences with a 21 year old computer.

I guess I should just base my opinions on my experience with a similar vintage Microsoft product... let's see... that would be DOS... I'll fudge a little and go Widnows 1.0... It sucks.

In case you haven't noticed, the world has moved on in the last 21 years... and that includes the Macintosh.

324 posted on 03/09/2005 7:30:22 PM PST by Swordmaker (Tagline now open, please ring bell.)
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