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   From: clavicus.vile@oblivion.org   
      
   "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"  wrote in message   
   news:ifban1$9a4$13@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   > In message , Clavicus Vile wrote:   
   >   
   >> "... if [Apple] failed, "IBM would be left to dominate--and destroy--the   
   >> industry."   
   >   
   > Only it wasn't IBM that was the threat, it was Microsoft.   
      
   Thank goodness Microsoft "destroyed" the industry.    Macs are overpriced   
   and underpowered in the face of PC competition.   It chills the blood to   
   think what Apple would have gotten away with in the absence of such   
   competition.   
      
   >> "... the Mac was certainly the least threatening computer ever built."   
   >   
   > How times have changed. Nowadays users don't worry about whether their PCs   
   > are "threatening" or not, they worry about them being a pain in the bum.   
      
   Speak for yourself, dunce.   
      
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   than "poor", you get a Mac.' -- Tim Murray   
      
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