Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alexey, You academes get so touchy when people trash your beloved Apples...... Fact is MAC's safest bastion was academia, they gave away the Apples. Problem was in the business world they use PCs. Hence the reason MS won the war. I have not met one professor or academe that likes MS. All are in love with MACs and Netscape. They forever chose the underdog... Peter K - -----Original Message----- From: Alexey Merz [mailto:alexey@webcom.com] Sent: Monday, January 18, 1999 1:55 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: Win 95 to 98 my final word "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>wrote: >OK. FWIW, PCs make up 97% of new PC buyers. >The remaining 3% buy MACs. Must be an academic sort of thing. Wrong. The iMac alone currently has 7% market share. Must be an "I read the newspaper" sort of thing. .......................................................................... Alexey Merz | URL: http://www.webcom.com/alexey | email: alexey@webcom.com | PGP public key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/ | voice:503/494-6840