[boris]

Yeah, yeah, and the Betamax format was much better than VHS. I guess this guy is still gushing over his Beta tape collection.

Apple is--and will continue to be--a niche market inside another niche market, a cult rather than a culture. It's verrry "in" with the Chardonay-and-Brie crowd in Marin County. "Quantity has a quality all its own," and the quiche-eating mob at Apple will never get it.

--Boris

[Mr. Thorne]

Windows is, was, and always shall be, the choice of the crowd, the herd, the masses; steered on by IT professionals, who, like the Jesse Jacksons of the world, would find themselves out of a job if they ever solved the problems they complain about...

While the niche market chugs away.

[D-fendr]

Except there's plenty of betamax that runs on the Mac. Pretty close to 75-90% of users could run the same programs on a Mac, better and with a lower Cost of Ownership.

MS has it's advantages for some things, but I think ITS niche should be smaller: 20-30%.

[Nick Danger]

It's verrry "in" with the Chardonay-and-Brie crowd in Marin County.

That is an interesting way to criticize a technology product. It has the virtue of being customized to the audience at Free Republic, unlike so much of the one-size-fits-all FUD that most Munchkins use. You must be a very special Munchkin to be able to use your own material.

Is it really so scary that 8 or 9 per cent of the people buy something other than Wintel boxes? Surely there is room for product variety in your universe. Why denigrate people for not being just like you? I don't own a Mac either, but I don't sit here making up fantasies about Mac owners being cheese-eating Democrats. What's in that for you?

[GreaserX]

Cool! You are the second person to call apple people names! now i am a quiche eater! ha ha ha

[blackbart.223]

"Yeah, yeah, and the Betamax format was much better than VHS."

Steve Jobs downfall. He wanted the software and the hardware locked in. And they call Microsoft a monopoly