Posted by doc on 07/07/06 04:53

Very good analogy Brian and you've said exactly what I was trying to
illustrate but much more fluent and clear than the long drawn out words
which I drew.

It was this "niche" that made us feel very isolated and alone which drew us
closer to fear and the "pucker" zone wherein we asked ourselves the very
question you have stated so aptly, "if the mac is as superior as we've been
told, why can't we find others to get help from?" the answer to this last
question [plus apple's hanging up on their strongest ally at our operation]
which turned us to reconsider another solution and one which had a larger
box (or no box at all) with lots of avenues and venues of solutions wherein
we could drive 20 or so minutes and find at least two or more helpmates or
guru's :o) that turned out to be windows/pc and virtually much anything
else thereafter :o) although we liked the look and feel of Avid products
let alone we especially liked their history of Linear background where we
too exposure.

drd :o)


"BrianEWilliams" <sorry_no_email@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> William Davis wrote:
>> In article <OJqng.6515$D03.1910@trndny03>, "doc" <doc@anywhere.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > William D: What you say is definately good verbage and definately
>> > worth
>> > consideration. I could be just some guy off the street with nothing to
>> > do
>> > or some vietnam veteran who is disabled and mad at the world and doing
>> > everything in my power to create animosity to others - - AND - - my not
>> > stating all this helps to support such claim.
>> >
>> SNIP>
>> > Your US video producction comrad (hmmm, cold war term)
>> >
>> > drd :o)
>>
>> Sigh. Your long ramble parses down to one simple fact.
>>
>> You won't or can't give anyone any verifiable credentials to back up
>> your BS.
>>
>> So that's precisely what it is. BS.
>>
>> In my 20 years running a business I've learned one simple, unassailable
>> truth.
>>
>> Nobody who actually has any REAL responsibility for a legitimate, viable
>> business will EVER forgo an opportunity to freely promote it in an open
>> and honest manner.
>>
>> It's fundamentally stupid to do so.
>>
>> The inevitable conclusion must be that you have no such responsibility.
>>
>> Because not only do your wildly overblown opinions run diametrically
>> opposed to my personal experience and that of hundreds of other editors
>> that I correspond with, but as long as you hide behind a cheezy fake
>> identity, none of the REAL people here have any reason to take you
>> seriously.
>>
>> I know I no longer will.
>
> Very entertaining thread, but it's been a long holiday weekend, and I
> have to get to bed, but I do want to chime in here. A good friend of
> mine also had a motherboard go bad on his G5. Since he is a very
> persistent engineer, he ended up getting great service from Apple, but
> I know he is far above the norm. I can see others who would have ended
> up feeling as Doc does partly because Macs are a niche product that are
> hard to self-service, and Apple holds most of the cards. If my Windows
> box has a bad motherboard, I can replace it myself for about $70.
>
> Here is my simple question. If Macs are so great, why do they have
> such a small market share? Perhaps as you ponder this, you might see
> that Doc could possibly have a point. If you refuse to see this, then
> I would say that your view of Macs is more a religious than utilitarian
> view.
>

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