->         Man after my own heart. My son is on M*c and we have no end of
->   troubles sending stuff back and forth. Why lock yourself out of the
->   realm of the Web and such and go to a smaller arena. 3% of putors
->   users are on M*c. That is three percent !

->         But they are good units, no way around this. I will not
->         entertain a discussion here on why they did not catch on.

 I am not Bashfull, I WILL.
Corporate GREED. Apply refused to offer any discounts, In fact in hte
earlier days actualy Punished Distributire for selling Below Apple
"Sugest" Price. And they aslo steadfastly refuse to allow clones to be
built wanting to make Maximul dollars off of sales themselves.
IT is called "Shooting ones self in the Foot"
They got off to a very good start and could have have had a respectiable
portion of the market. 
Now a day late and a dollar short thyey find themselves in the "Which
Comes First, the Chicken of the Egg"
Very few are interested i nwriting software for such a smal lmarket
segment. And they bparitlay have a small segment becasue of the lack of
software.
Althouhg in al lfairness I still see them as King of the Hill on
"Desktop Publishing" and "Video Manupliation".
 Although MS is rappidly catching up.
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