XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: alangbaker@telus.net   
      
   In article ,   
    "John"  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   We don't.   
      
   I don't have a PC and doubt I ever will.   
      
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   to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect   
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