TW>-> TA> Does your stigmation also apply to the Apple-MacIntosh system or
TW>-> TA> only the competition by the guys from Redmond?

TW>-> I guess you're referring to the above paragraph?  In the case of the mac,
TW>-> you're definitely locked into doing things their way,  but it also seems
TW>that
TW>-> the most recent version of what they're offering for an OS has linux
TW>-> underneath,  so I'm not real sure about them.

TW>It is UNIX based just like Linux is. And in some ways besudes being a
TW>VERY stable OS is much better then Windows  by a long ways. Except for
TW>the problem I mention below.

TW>-> I do know that my brother,  who's a self-described "GUI
kinda guy" also h
TW>one
TW>-> or more macs.  And that the couple of times I've messed with them (not
TW>-> recently) the UI felt more like it was getting in my way than helping me
TW>-> anything.

TW> That is the way I felt when I had to use an Apple LISA some years back.
TW>Never looked at a MAC since.
TW>Mostly because of the severe limitations in software avaialble compaired
TW>to the Windows platform.
TW>It is still the KING of Desktop Publishing though.

And in all fairness I think we have to admit; if we were going to
spend the next three months, 18 hours/day, writing a new software
product; we would be smart enough the write it in an OS that had
200 million users rather in an OS that only had two million users
or only had one million users to possibly sell our product to.

Ciao, Ack.

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