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From: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac Multitasking? (Silly expletive deleted)
Message-ID: <1177@csib.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 12:07:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: csib.1177
Posted: Mon Aug 24 12:07:56 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Aug-87 05:17:42 EDT
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Reply-To: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
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In article <1374@killer.UUCP| elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
|in article <2793@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) says:
|>  No wonder
|> the Amiga's not providing a serious challenge; ease of use for
|> non-technocrats is what counts today.
|
|Uh, is that why MS-DOS machines are STILL outselling Macs by more than 2-1
|margin? Because they are easy to use?  

Please note that according to these numbers, Apple has a 33% market share
against the combined might of IBMCompaqATT...  Not too shabby for a little
old $2 billion dollar company that just sells ease-of-use.  BTW, see the
August 18 issue of PC Week for some better numbers.  

Even more interesting was the short article on page 12 of the same issue.
The cost of using an IBM PC over a 5 yeare period averages out to $19,755.
The cost of using a Mac over the same period is $14,171, a diffeerence of 
$5600, or almost enough to get you a Mac II :-).

|
|'Nuff said!
|
|  Eric Green {ihnp4,cbosgd}!killer!elg

Jerry Whitnell                           It's a damn poor mind that can only
Communication Solutions, Inc.            think of one way to spell a word.
						-- Andrew Jackson