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From: sobiloff@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Blake Sobiloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Apple gets favorable ruling
Keywords: Apple vs. Microsoft
Message-ID: <1732@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 89 16:20:10 GMT
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Reply-To: sobiloff@thor.stolaf.edu (Blake Sobiloff)
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In article <25056@mirror.UUCP> garison@prism.TMC.COM (Gary Piatt) writes:
>Apple is suing Microsoft solely for the public attention (in my own
>opinion).  Consider this:  Apple makes Macintoshes, Mac II's, etc;
>MS-Windows was written for PC's.  Where's the competition?  Apple is
>not losing any business to Microsoft.  In fact, it could be argued that
>Apple gets free advertising evertime someone uses Windows; sooner or
>later, a Windows user could be expected to purchase a Mac... going to
>the horse's, uh, mouth, as it were.

I think that the problem Apple has with this is that there is such a much
larger installed base of IBMs, plus they are "the 'safe' computer for business,"
.  Corporations, and eventually personal users, will be tempted to buy Windows
technology instead of Macs because they (usually) haven't experienced the
difference between the two and assume that a graphics interface is a graphics
interface is a graphics interface.  In marketing circles this is called
direct competition.  Why would someone want to switch from IBM Windows (er,
Microsoft) after they have invested so much money into the hardware and 
software, plus their time investment in learning the new programs (which is, of
course, MUCH greater than on a Mac, right? :-) ?



>
>			-Garison-
>
>
>Disclaimer:
>   The opinions stated above are of my own creation, and, therefore,
>   are probably wrong.


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