On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:43 AM, <technophobic_...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 6/10/09, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> ...I question alienating users during hard times as a wise business >> strategy. The Mac Intel newbies won't notice when the loyalists abandon >> ship. Their heads will be buried in Windows and they will have the most >> expensive PCs with Apple badges. > > When loyalists "abandon" Apple it's usually because they've finally come to > admit that a computer is a computer. Except for a few die-hards, the days of > the elitist have passed. Any machine will do what 98% of users require. It's > just a matter of personal choice. The remaining 2% need extra crunching > power and are mostly accessing super computers. Don't ask me where the > figures come from because I won't tell. :-) >
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