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>,
"Edwin" <thorne25@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Steve de Mena" <steve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Edwin wrote:
> >> "Alan Baker" <alangbaker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >>
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> >>> In article <c77c7$486beb9f$13080@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >>> "Edwin" <thorne25@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> "Alan Baker" <alangbaker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >>>>
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> >>>>> In article <aa538$486b99fd$17537@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >>>>> "Edwin" <thorne25@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> "Sandman" <mr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>>> news:mr-80022bdf716d71d4a4567de8e8fa025c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>>>>> Mac OS X is now at 8% and starting to approach double digit.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/re****t.aspx?qprid=8&qpmr=100&qpdt=1&qp
> >>>>>>> ct=
> >>>>>>> 3&q
> >>>>>>> ptimeframe=M
> >>>>>> If we accept your site's figures as true, it means twice as many
> >>>>>> people
> >>>>>> are
> >>>>>> using Vista as are using all versions of Mac OS put together.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/re****t.aspx?qprid=10
> >>>>> Sure.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> But you also have to accept that fewer people are using Windows
(than
> >>>>> last month) and more people are using Macs (than last month) and
that
> >>>>> it's been a pretty consistent trend for...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ...more than three years.
> >>>> I can accept that trend for Internet usage. When it comes to
market
> >>>> share, OTOH, Apple is still around 3% of the world market.
> >>> And Internet usage reflects use by *people* as opposed to use by
> >>> machines that do a single task in a factory, etc.
> >>
> >> Those single task computers in factories aren't being used by
*people*,
> >> huh Alan? They've got robots at their keyboards? Or is it only
using
> >> a computer for Web browsing counts as using a computer?
> >>
> >> Or is it that more Windows computers are hidden behind routers than
Macs
> >> are?
> >
> > The Windows process control workstations we setup at factories (food
> > products) had no people using them, they just ran services that were
> > controlled by master machines.
>
> That type of work used to be the domain of Unix boxes or proprietary
OSes.
> It says much about Windows that it can take over such jobs.
>
> Should we count out all the Macs in untended graphics rendering farms?
In terms of which computers people are using for personal tasks (i.e. as
personal computers. I'm sure you've heard of them).
But however many there are won't change the fact that web stats are
showing that more and more people are using the Mac for personal
computing.
>
> > I think the 8% or so Mac share would be even lower if these
non-Internet
> > type of machines were counted too, as I doubt Macs are used much in
that
> > sort of role.
>
> Hmm... yet the Mac is touted as the most advanced operating system in
the
> world, with the easiest to use interface...
What ease of use is necessary in a machine that isn't going to be used
directly.
>
> Years ago Ben & Jerry set up their whole ice cream production on Macs.
> Whatever happened to that? Why no repeat stories?
You mean like the german publi****ng company that just announced they're
converting their entire 10,000 seat operation to Macs?
>
> And how did Web browsing become the only way that counts to use a
computer
> (according to Maccies)?
I'm sure it's not the only way.
It is, however, the only way that has been presented here. Go ahead and
present your own.
--
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"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix
with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on
Mac OS X)
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' --
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)
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