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From: mtang@sgi.com (Man Kit Tang)
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Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.003738.1598@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 00:37:38 GMT
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In article <16994@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>In article <1991Mar26.181438.17611@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>
>>Too much catering to this "unwilling" user, and you make all the "willing"
>>users (especially us computer professionals) resistant to the idea of
>>catering to the user. A happy medium is what is needed.
>>
>>THIS IS WHY Mac's are such a "religious" issue. Those who hate them hate
>>them and their philosophy because no respect is given the user who is
>>willing to learn the machine.
>
>OK, I'm forced to respond.
>
... <much stuff deleted> ...
>                                                           We have a
>free marketplace; users buy or don't buy your product.  If you strike
>a compromise and I give buyers what they want, you're out of business.
>Those are the facts of life.

I couldn't agree more on this.  So, let the market declare who's the
winner.

-mkt