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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: computer buyers
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.044220.3391@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Jun 91 04:42:20 GMT
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xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:


> PYC136@uriacc.uri.edu (Andy Patrizio) writes:

>> (you might add Mac users to the novice list, since
>> I don't consider the Mac a computer. It's a
>> monument to the old saying that if you build
>> something even an idiot can use, only an idiot
>> will use it.)

>And isn't it amazing how the business community went
>lemminglike right to the Mac, despite offical pressure
>against it from higher management?

>Do you really wonder why America is unable to compete
>in the world economy any more?

>Look who's leading the fight; Mac users.

  The Mac is hardly more than 10% of the PC population in Fortune 500
companies.  The other 90% is IBM or compatibles.

  I'd say any failing of US companies is more an indictment of IBM
PCs than Macs.

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