I believe that the great masses of mac users believe cost is not a consideration.
You may also be right, people stick to what they are used to. They stick to what their friends have. They use things that their friends can help them fix if something goes wrong. The thing is, mac users do the same thing. Imagine the peer pressure of being a friend of some of the more vocal mac users on this list, you buy a pc and suddenly your mac using friend is calling you an idiot and treating you horribly..telling you you are actually evil. There is much more pressure from mac users to stick with Apple than windows users ever exert. This anger from some mac users isn't going to sway many buyers who are on the fence to go to mac, it might push them the other way if nothing else to get away from the negative vibe. Apple has also put itself into the space of expensive/high end computing. When people think I need a new inexpensive computer, Apple does not come to mind. Now this tactic has worked out VERY well for Apple, they don't want to be the everymans computer, they only want the ones that are willing to pay. But Apple has placed themselves in this box in the mind of consumers, and it serves them as well as it doesn't. I have a friend from work who bought two systems just before last Christmas, she spent less than 1100 for both..do you think these were new macs? She hasn't had a lick of trouble...I know because I'd have gotten the call. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Jordan <jor17...@gmail.com> wrote: > To me, for someone to choose implies that they are reasonably informed > about the options. I believe that great masses of Windows users are not > sufficiently aware of the Mac and OS X as a serious option. > > > > Do I even want to respond to this? >> >> Your response is incorrect. Prefer means "tend to choose." Free >> choice or no free choice, most computer users tend to choose Windows >> as their operating system. That is patently true. Do I think that >> many of those folks could be better served by a different OS. Yes. >> >> What is a "real" free choice in this instance? Consumers may be >> brainwashed, but they still have a free choice. Perhaps you are >> saying that their being brainwashed may have resulted in not having a >> REAL free choice even though they actually do. As I have said a >> hundred times before, most people tell me that they use Windows >> because, and this is how they usually put it, "everybody else does." >> Translation? Because it is popular and they want to be part of the >> popular crowd, i.e., intended for the general public rather than >> specialists or intellectuals. >> >> Steve >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> >> >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
