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Date: 20 Apr 2003 12:44:49 -0600
From: andrewunix <agreenbunopsamnet>
Subject: Re: A Macintosh Computers and A Saab?


Sun, 20 Apr 2003 10:20:21 +0200, xennarnopsamo.com suggested: : Nutmegger wrote: :> "Goran Larsson" wrote::: :> :>>Xenna wrote: :>> :>>>You're obviously in the minority of Mac users who stepped into Macs :>>>after they got OSX. :>> :>>You might be very wrong. I paid no attention at all to Macs until they :>>started running MacOS X -- :> :> I agree. I used to work on a Mac and I hated it, and couldn't wait to come :> home to my own system. : > : >>then I bought an Apple laptop. Co-workers : >>did also not pay any attention to Macs until they found out that I : >>bought one -- then they bought an Apple laptop. I think that quite a : >>number of Macs are sold to Unix users just because of MacOS X. : : OK, guys. If I'm very wrong and the pre-OSX users did not leave Apple in : droves (which seems unlikely), that would mean the Apple userbase has at : least doubled since they introduced OSX. That would be a statistic Apple : would plaster all over their ads. : : I never heard anything like that, ergo: I'm not *very* wrong... : : I agree, OSX appeal to Unix folks is definitely a factor, but I don't : think it's had the effect of doubling Apple's sales. (yet) I don't think anyone implied that it did. I'd say that a lot of Apple users haven't upgraded to OS X yet, and so in that context it's not hard to believe that a good percentage of OS X users migrated from another platform. -- agreenbu Return to Main Index
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