On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:46 PM, tjpa <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > On Jan 30, 2010, at 11:59 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Microsoft Corporation has been far more successful than has Apple if >> you measure success by the number of product users and dollars >> generated through sales. Microsoft also inspires this same so-called >> hatred. Such is often the fate of big companies.
> Apple is more profitable, which is the only measure that counts. That is one measure that counts. There are others. > Apple is also the company the industry follows. M$ makes the industry move > by chasing them with a cudgel. They are hated for very different reasons. I agree with your view of the influence that Apple has upon the computer manufacturing industry. However, and while this does not negate the previous sentence, most computer buyers still prefer to use, by a wide margin, computers that run under Windows as opposed to the Mac OS. There is nothing wrong with being the underdog in terms of bigness. Many folks just love the underdogs of the world, myself included. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
