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From: rewing@Apple.COM (Richard Ewing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: PC's are democratic; Mac's are fascistic
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Date: 22 Dec 89 16:23:10 GMT
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In article <628@fred.UUCP> bill@fred.UUCP (Bill Poitras) writes:
>In article <5098@blake.acs.washington.edu> gwangung@blake.acs.washington.edu (Just another theatre geek...) writes:
>>In article <4120@puff.cs.wisc.edu> schaut@cat9.CS.WISC.EDU (Richard Schaut) writes:
>>>In article <1989Dec18.210455.29522@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> jxf@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) writes:
>>>the PC in word processing, the Mac loses on all fronts.  In fact, the
>>>Mac loses in all general business applications, and that gap is going
>>>to widen over the next year or so.
>>
>>	Ha.  Ha ha.  Hah hah hah. BWAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHA!
>>
>>Roger Tang, Member
>>Uncle Bonsai Memorial Fan Club
>>American Flag Disposal Unit #3245, Chonk Moonhunters chapter
>>gwangung@blake.acs.washington.edu
>You think that's funny when he says it don't you.  Well how about when an 
>article in PC Week says the EXACT same thing.. that the mac is losing in 
>business applications, and will continue to lose into the nineties.  For all of
>you people who ask - "Where is your proof!"  Look in PC Week December 11, 1989
>Vol. 6 No. 49, on page 11 in the right column.  William Zachmann has an 
>small article on how small the Mac market is becoming.  I know that he is not
>the beat all expert, but he is not the type to make idle statements without 
>some basis in fact.  I just guess that its the PC world will have the last
>laugh when eventually, you can ask a business man if his office uses Macs and 
>says "A what?".
>
>
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Your statement about that PC Week magazine quote is quite interesting.
In fact, the quote itself is so interesting, we discovered that
IBM is using it in competitive analysis presentations to its
costomers.  What amused us more was that IBM gave no credit to the
source of the quote, I am led to believe that PC Week and Mr. Zachmann
are not the most impartial people in the world.

I'd like you to say the same thing to our National Account Execs,
whose business with big companies grew dramtically last year.  Here
in Atlanta, we have Coca-Cola, Georgia Power (on every top execs
desk), Southern Company, BellSouth, Turner Broadcasting, C & S Bank,
and a myriad of others.  If you think that the Mac market is shrinking
down the tubes because an editor of a PC magazine said so, then you'll
probably believe that Noreiaga still has control of Panama from his
radio broadcats.  Get the facts.

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