Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]According to www.appleturns.com Mac market share in US is UP to 7 to 9 percetn depending on who is counting (low was 2.5%) > Nathan Wajsman 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. >> >> Nathan >> > When ever any of these business's get their image and advertizing act > together they are in a Mac movement. These are important billion dollar > fields. A movie film spends as much on this as on the film itself. My > hair dresser uses macs. So does my Lawyer! (which surprized me). I'm > seeing them in all not the obvious Mac places. Sure widows is OK to and > they've made inroads into the Mac creative fields as Photoshop by any > other name as well as other Adobe applications you need to make a > brochure. And the internet is a platform with out an obvious platform > and that playing field and that seems to be the main thing. Where the > platforms get along. What platforms to these palm pilots use? Nothing > that either Mac or IBM can gloat about from what i can gather. But they > all communicate. One can look at the figures at the amount of computers > Mac is making. Where are they all going to? They make more computers > than any single company in the woild. How long is the waiting list on > the burgeoning Mac 5s and how many times faster are than than the windows? > > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html