Re: Anyone using Vista?

In article <vJKdnSEadbaUSSvUnZ2dnUVZ_umWnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
HeyBub <heybub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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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.

Argumentum ad hominem, I believe... either that or less than two months of
being 'in control' has Democrats behaving like some folks from (US state
of your choice) I know like to think of themselves as behaving.



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.

Argementum ad hominem, I believe... either that or corporations have no
sense of how to test a system for superior ROI, which may be the case, in
places where folks behave like some (folks from US state of your choice) I
have known.



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.

Argementum ad hominem, I believe... either that or this is what passes for
Reasonsed Discourse amongst some (folks from US state of your choice) I
have known.




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.

Religions are not rational... as are some (folks from US state of your
choice) I have known.


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

'Choice' is not always rational... but then again, the concept of
'rational' has been completely alien to some (folks from US state of your
choice) I've known.



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.

So, let's see... a free market's obvious conclusion is a monopoly, which,
by definition, has 'exclusive ownership through legal privelege, command
of supply or concerted action'... and since ownership is exclusive the
market is no longer free.

'The most free market leads to a market which is the least free'... this
passes for logic, among some (folks from US state of your choice) I have
known. George Orwell - an admitted Socialist - advocated that 'Slavery's
Freedom!'

From http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-8.txt :

--begin quoted text

The price of monopoly is upon every occasion the highest which can be got.
The natural price, or the price of free competition, on the contrary, is
the lowest which can be taken, not upon every occasion indeed, but for any
considerable time together. The one is upon every occasion the highest
which can be squeezed out of the buyers, or which it is supposed they will
consent to give; the other is the lowest which the sellers can commonly
afford to take, and at the same time continue their business.

--end quoted text

.... but what did Adam Smith know about The Nature and Causes of the Wealth
of Nature... argumentum ad vericundiam, I believe.

DD
.

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