XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: steve_mackay@hotmail.com   
      
   On 7/20/03 4:46 PM, in article wRFSa.156$Pd2.3234@newsfeed.avtel.net, "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.   
      
   What is it that's incompatible?   
      
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