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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
All kidding aside, the point is that Apple's mind share tends to be disproportionate to its market share, as many posters have noted here numerous times. This is not necessarily a bad thing. But if anyone's being naive, it's those who constantly trumpet Apple as superior in general to its competitors based on details that ignore the bigger picture. The argument is ultimately inane, and reminds me of the VHS/Beta tape war. Beta (just like Apple) was the technically superior format, but VHS (just like Microsoft Windows-based products) wound up with the larger market. Apple may indeed get user software better than most, but Microsoft has more eyeballs. That's not said in admiration of their products-- it's just recognizing reality.
Personally, I think it's very useful here (both because of significant differences between the two and to avoid confusion) to distinguish between Apple's mobile efforts and their computer ones.

Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
It's nice for people to ardently leap to the defense of a company's products () but that passion should certainly be tempered with a 10,000 foot view IMO. But at least you got some Thanks for mistakenly calling me naive.
This stems from, perhaps, a lack of this distinction on the mobile vs computer point. I do believe your arguments relation to Apple's computer stuff have a certain . . . blinder-effect, or tunnel vision to them and really only apply to their mobile stuff. I was close to clicking that "Thanks!" button, too, (as I agreed with the basic sentiments of the post, if not its ardor or extremity) myself, but decided against it.

Last edited by GeneralAntilles; 2008-06-11 at 13:08.
 

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