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From: gdavis@primate.wisc.edu (Gary Davis)
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 18:51:34 GMT
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From article <628@fred.UUCP>, by bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras):

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> 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

An interesting idea of what constitutes proof. It might be amusing,
even if tedious, to compile a list of predictions made by computer
columnists over the last several years and compare it with the
eventuated realities.

I remember reading a few years back a respected (and reviled) 
computer columnist who claimed that all development of software
on the Mac had ceased and that it had been switched over to the
Atari ST instead.

It's amazing to see how much resentment towards the Mac still
throbs in the breasts of so many. The Mac's continued and increasing
success, coupled with movement of the IBM world to Mac-like
systems, may be exciting even higher dudgeon. Not that we Mac
lovers are without resentments :-)

Gary Davis