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Anyone have a phone number for the Intuit hucksters? Lisa C 08-07-2006
Posted by scfundogs on August 10, 2006, 2:01 pm
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>
> And that advantage is now gone for Micro$oft since the Mac runs on
> an Intel chip and runs Windows.
>
> Apple has all the tools it needs to bury Micro$oft.
>
> But now that Mac runs the Intel chip you can have a dual boot
> system where on of the boots is into Windows.
>
> Of course you realize Bill Gates stole an OS from Apple a number
> of years ago, that is what is now called Windows.
>
> Apple in their infinite wisdom never copyrighted their OS.
>
> Catch Pirates of Silicon Valley if you can.
>
> In lieu viruses/spyware/hackers/etc. for Windows and the
> abscence of same for the Mac as well as an OS that doesn't
> crash every hour Apple could very easily crush Micro$oft like
> a bug.

Please remove Quickbooks from the overly-beaten dead horse of Apple vs.
Microsoft. It doesn't belong here and, just so y'know, Mac supporters do
their favorite OS (and, by extension, favorite hardware) manufacturer harm
when they bash MS. Take it to comp.sys.mac.apps where bashing MS & Windows
is the rule of the day.

--
Tara



Posted by HeyBub on August 10, 2006, 5:01 pm
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 scfundogs wrote:
>
> Please remove Quickbooks from the overly-beaten dead horse of Apple
> vs. Microsoft. It doesn't belong here and, just so y'know, Mac
> supporters do their favorite OS (and, by extension, favorite
> hardware) manufacturer harm when they bash MS. Take it to
> comp.sys.mac.apps where bashing MS & Windows is the rule of the day.

It's not beating a dead horse; Micros~1 supplies more software for Macs than
anyone else -- including Apple.



Posted by slb on August 11, 2006, 12:11 am
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The tech world is littered with dead better ideas. We'll see how your theory
plays out
in the marketplace whether Mac will bury Microsoft.

Buy the way, Steve Jobs and crew, as well as Bill Gates and crew both "stole" the
original OS from Xerox Parc. If you're going to be a zealot, at least get your
"facts"
right.

sb


Barnabas Collins wrote:

>
> >At the risk of offending the Mac zealots and the Microsoft bashers in the
> >same response, it's a simple matter of freshman college economics.
> >
> >One platform has 5% market share and the other has 95%. It makes no
> >difference how user friendly or technologically superior one is over the
> >other (remember the Beta vs. VHS video recorder wars?). You have to spend
> >money to write, sell, enhance, and support software. You have to make a
> >profit to continue to keep the resources employed.
> And that advantage is now gone for Micro$oft since the Mac runs on
> an Intel chip and runs Windows.
>
> Apple has all the tools it needs to bury Micro$oft.
>
> But now that Mac runs the Intel chip you can have a dual boot
> system where on of the boots is into Windows.
>
> Of course you realize Bill Gates stole an OS from Apple a number
> of years ago, that is what is now called Windows.
>
> Apple in their infinite wisdom never copyrighted their OS.
>
> Catch Pirates of Silicon Valley if you can.
>
> In lieu viruses/spyware/hackers/etc. for Windows and the
> abscence of same for the Mac as well as an OS that doesn't
> crash every hour Apple could very easily crush Micro$oft like
> a bug.
>
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Posted by Barnabas Collins on August 10, 2006, 1:10 pm
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On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:22:53 -0400, Margaret Wilson

>HeyBub wrote:
>
>> It is simply not possible to "have met a lot [of Apple users]"
>
>Well even if I concede on that one (which I don't), it would be another
>reason why there's not much software out there for Macs....
>
>Regards,
>
>Margaret

My understnding is Apple has 10% of the desktop market.

That having been said Apple if it were smart could bury
Microsoft by playing up the advantages of the
Mac over the pc (plug and play that works,
an OS that doesn't lock up every hour,
and viruses/etc. Mac has what one virus now?

Apple has one distinct advantage. It ain't
Bill Gates with a huge target on his back.

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Posted by Golden California Girls on August 10, 2006, 10:57 pm
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Barnabas Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:22:53 -0400, Margaret Wilson
>
>> HeyBub wrote:
>>
>>> It is simply not possible to "have met a lot [of Apple users]"
>> Well even if I concede on that one (which I don't), it would be another
>> reason why there's not much software out there for Macs....
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Margaret
>
> My understnding is Apple has 10% of the desktop market.

IIRC at WWDC a couple days ago Steve, in the Keynote, said something like Apple
shipped 17% of all laptops computers and Apple was the only computer
manufacturer who was shipping more units, everyone else had a decline.
Obviously Apple is grabbing market share from somebody.

> That having been said Apple if it were smart could bury
> Microsoft by playing up the advantages of the
> Mac over the pc (plug and play that works,
> an OS that doesn't lock up every hour,
> and viruses/etc. Mac has what one virus now?
>
> Apple has one distinct advantage. It ain't
> Bill Gates with a huge target on his back.

As for which OS has more App's, all the Doze people forget OS X is Unix. Every
Unix App made since, what the 1950's?, is a Mac App. The sheer number of them
totally buries Doze.

And for all those I'll never use a Mac people, you better not use a credit card
then, because the master data center for credit card transactions doesn't have a
single Doze machine in it. They can't afford the down time. (more from the
keynote)

As for speed, well the BONIC stats are pretty revealing. After you toss away
the top couple of machines like AS400's you come to a whole bunch of Power Mac
machines. Then there is a smattering of Doze machines, just enough to make you
realize that there is a way to make an Intel chip run fast. Next up are the
Intel Mac's. Never mind they are clocking 1/2 the speed of the top Doze
machines, they are way faster. Since there are like 700,000 machines in the
BONIC stats database it is a pretty good cross section of what's really out
there.


Anyway you'awl party hearty and play safe and god forbid have unprotected
computer sex if you use Doze!




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