Re: Anyone using Vista?

riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Nah. Apple's market share has remained constant at about 7% forever.
That's equivalent to the percentage who voted for third-party
candidates. Fringe groups seldom exceed 10% of anything.

Apples market share has grown from 4% and is now over 10%

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/02/02/apple-market-share-continues-to-climb-windows-drops/


I stand corrected. Your reference from an Apple sock-puppet is off a tad,
though. CNET reports a market share of about 9.6%.
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/03/01/apples-net-share-slipped-in-february/

But that's to be expected with the Democrats in control. All the "beautiful
people" use Macs.


But at least Apple is not in the
"cult" status (i.e., Linux with less than 1% of the installed base).


Linux has more servers than Windows does.

Sure. The geeks love Linux and it's the geeks that set up servers.


In a recent briefing by Ballmer his graph of 'threats' to Windows had
Linux as bigger than Apple.

Yeah, but nobody believes Ballmer. Just ask any Apple user.



What is good for retailers is often bad for customers. Retailers
making more profit means customers having less in their pockets.

You've got it backwards: What's good, or perceived as good, for
consumers makes the most money for retailers.

That is complete nonsense. That is the propaganda of the consumerist
society, which of course you would advocate, as perceived by the
retailers (or the ones wanting to make the most money).

It's God's honest truth. You can take it to the bank. You can let your
sister marry it. If you had it for dinner, it would be the best meal of your
life. You can build a religion around it.

Our decisions on what to buy are not dictated or imposed. There are almost
always choices.


The consumer ultimately dictates what's
offered for sale, not the reverse.

That may be true in a free society, but computer sales are not 'free'.
There is a convicted monopolist dictating what gets sold.

Being a monopolist is not a crime. Private monopolies are almost always good
for the consumer. The arch monopoly of yore, Standard Oil, reduced the price
of kerosene from $3.00/gallon to FIVE CENTS. In less than three years. The
people who sold whale oil for lighting were displeased, sure, but for
everybody else, the night lit up. The people who complained about the
monopoly status of Standard Oil were not the consumers, they were the people
who produced, transported, and refined oil. In the case of Microsoft, the
people who complained about Microsoft's dominance were not the users - they
were the competitors. Competitors like RealNetworks (RealPlayer).


For example most people who buy Windows would prefer to buy XP rather
than Vista, but MS won't let the OEMs install it (except on netbooks).


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