Posted by Richard Crowley on 04/06/06 15:41

"Specs"wrote ...
> I don't think the 90/10 split follows for the creative
> industry. Macs dominate Audio and publishing fields.

That is the popular myth. But you wouldn't get any support
from the people over on the audio newsgroups. Besides,
what difference does it make?

I was being generous. It is more like 95 vs. 5.

> Without OS X who would Microsoft get their ideas from?
> The 90% PC market might just need OS X more than they know.

You are really a master of the popular myth, aren't you?
Perhaps you should look up the Palo Alto Research Center
(Xerox) if you want to know where most of the windowing
and mouse-related user interface ideas were developed.
(Back when Jobs and Wozniak were fooling around in their
garage.)

> Microsoft does appear to be having its fair share of problems with
> Vista at
> the moment which could open the door for Apple.
> http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/03/vista-2007-fire-leadership-now.html

It has never worked for Apple before, but I guess you
still have hope! :-)

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