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   John to George Graves   
   Re: AARGH! I must say it: The Mac sucks.   
   20 Jul 03 16:46:49   
   
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   XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nospam@nospam.com   
      
   George Graves wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >  "John"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> George Graves wrote:   
   >>> In article ,   
   >>>  "John"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> You say at least three stupid things each day in this NG, but this   
   >>> is by far the stupidest, even for you. People don't have to switch   
   >>> away from the Mac in order for the PC to gain marketshare. All they   
   >>> have to do is buy PCs at an accelerating rate that's higher than the   
   >>> acclerating rate at which Macs are bought. The majority position of   
   >>> the Microsoft 800 lb. gorilla ensures that to be the case. If all   
   >>> Mac users decided to NEVER purchase a Windows PC and to loyally   
   >>> stick with Mac and buy a new one each time a new model were   
   >>> released or even if every Mac user bought a new one of each model   
   >>> every time Apple released a new model, Apple would still lose   
   >>> marketshare. Marketshare is the percent of overall *sales*   
   >>> attributed to each platform over a certain period of time and has   
   >>> little or nothing to do with the size of the installed based. Of   
   >>> course, you   
   >>> are much too stupid to understand that, aren't you? The only way   
   >>> that you can see this issue is in terms of people abandoning the   
   >>> platform like rats leaving a sinking ship, isn't it? Brainless.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> That you are.  Loss of marketshare means that more and more PCs are   
   >> being sold. Sure mac owners buy PC.  What does that say about Mac?   
   >> That it is incapable of getting the job done.   
   >   
   > You are SOOOOOOOOOOOO stupid. Loss of marketshare means that the PC is   
   > selling at a greater accelerating rate than the rate at which Mac   
   > sales are increasing. It does not mean that the Mac is losing users.   
   >   
   > The Mac is incapable of getting the Job done? That's news to me. I   
   > make 6 figures with my Mac every year, this would not be true were   
   > the Mac incapable of "getting the job done". In fact, in my line of   
   > work, just the opposite is true. It's the PC that is, more often than   
   > not,   
   > incapable of getting the job done. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!   
      
      
   If Mac is so capapble of getting the job done why do almost all of the   
   Mac advocates go out and buy Windows PCs?    Because Mac has NO   
   compatibility with the real world.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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