Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak Focus now Apple v. Windows
From: Mark Kronquist <mak@teleport.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:04:57 -0700

on 9/28/03 8:52 PM, Nathan Wajsman at n.wajsman@chello.nl wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> Since 1987 I have worked for an electric utility in Tampa; for AT&T in New
> Jersey and in
> Europe; for Swiss Re in Zurich; as a self-employed consultant in Zurich; and
> now for a
> telecoms/internet company in the Netherlands and Spain. In those jobs I have
> had dealings with
> hundreds of customers, suppliers and business partners in Europe, North
> America and Asia.
> Every single one of them with one exception (a small consulting firm in Paris)
> used DOS and
> Windows-based computers. In the real world of business, outside some very
> specialized niches,
> Apple simply does not exist. Whether we like it or not is irrelevant. Windows
> is the de facto
> standard for the vast majority of the world's businesses.
> 


And Apple sets the standard and blazes a trail of innovation. That is their
strength. Apple is not reactionary. It is revolutionary time and time again
(iPod anyone)

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