list advice

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 17:43, Net Llama! wrote:
>> I don't buy that argument at all.  A Mac is a complete package, which
>> starts with brilliant marketing.  Even if everything just worked perfectly
>> out of the box, it wouldn't ever hope to compete with the marketing genius
>> of Apple.  Apple's strength really isn't the OS/firmware or the hardware
>> that they're choosing.  Its the marketing.  If it were just the hardware
>> then you could throw any OS on Apple HW and have the same great
>> experience.  We've already seen screenshots of a BSOD on an Intel Mac, and
>> a quick review of the Linux-PPC mailing list will quickly show you what a
>> complete nightmare it is to run Linux on a Mac.
>
> While I buy your argument and agree with its validity, Linux did overtake Mac
> (supposedly) in overall percentage of users

I don't buy those usage numbers at all.  I don't see how anyone can 
produce valid, relevant stats on any OS's usage numbers when its 
imnpossible to accurately count the number of users, or even what 
constitutes a user or a system.

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