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- From: hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:22:24 GMT
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- Jess M Holle (jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu) wrote:
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- }
- } As far as new machines sold, the Mac is either in first or second place.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- This may be true in terms of market share, but if you count all manufacturers
- of PC clones, Apple does not beat them. There is a premium on the Mac's
- superiority, and most people just don't want to pay it. So they buy clones.
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- }
- } > If the mac was so successful, why are so many mac software companies
- } >porting over their apps to windows?
- }
-
- Because there is a huge market for PC software.
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- Harris Wulfson
- hjwulfson@amherst.edu
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