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Re: Leopard market share???

sonn...@audiosanatorium.com (Sonnova) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:25:51 UT

(in article
<0fed08be-5c4b-4e9a-bb40-02563 9742...@x16g2000prn.googlegrou ps.com>):
Not to mention that market share is based on units sold, not the OS that the
end user installs (or doesn't install) on it. IOW, whether a person buying a
Mac keeps OSX or erases it in favor of Windows, its still a Mac sale and

Re: Leopard market share???

sonn...@audiosanatorium.com (Sonnova) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:22:44 UT

(in article <CJudnZo9jeVgOPrUnZ2dnUVZ_qDin ...@giganews.com>):
Oh, give us a f__king break! Is it logical for any significant number of
people to buy a Mac and replace OSX with Windows? Of course it isn't. You're
grasping at straws here. Sure, there might be some who do it. I can imagine a
situation where some long-term Windows user has purchased a Mac to see what

Re: Leopard market share???

sonn...@audiosanatorium.com (Sonnova) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:13:17 UT

(in article <2qydnXb1u-uflfrUnZ2dnUVZ_i2dn ...@giganews.com>):
What does that have to do with the subject at hand? Which is, in case you've
forgotten, that paying the extra money for a Mac (because Macs ARE more
expensive) and then removing Mac OSX to onstall Vista in it's stead is STUPID
and for that reason, not many people do it.

Re: Psystar sales booming!

sonn...@audiosanatorium.com (Sonnova) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:04:13 UT

(in article <znu-7DA279.02003509012...@new s.individual.net>):
Very disingenuous. While there are open source apps that allow Linux users to
do many of the things that Mac or Windows users can do, these apps are MOSTLY
not as good as the "shrink-wrapped" apps, don't have the features and many
aren't as stable. Many certainly don't get upgraded as often (and therefore

Re: Winows 7 - Same Old Sluggish Microsoft Crap

use...@gallopinginsanity.com (Snit) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:40:25 UT

"MuahMan" <muah...@gmail.com> stated in post
719d7ec1-aa8e-4ac8-8ee8-918465 72e...@r38g2000vbi.googlegroup s.com on 1/9/09
3:23 PM:
Show me how with a demonstration. :)

Re: Winows 7 - Same Old Sluggish Microsoft Crap

muah...@gmail.com (MuahMan) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:23:15 UT

Please Die!

Re: Winows 7 - Same Old Sluggish Microsoft Crap

use...@gallopinginsanity.com (Snit) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:00:08 UT

"John" <nos...@nospam.com> stated in post
M8GdnSirt7JkJPrUnZ2dnUVZ_gqdn. ..@giganews.com on 1/9/09 1:56 PM:
Steve Mackay was too busy begging me to show, again, the quotes where Steve
Carroll admitted to using multiple identities... and also where Steve
Carroll has admitted to doing what he accuses others of.

Re: What would it be like if... as opposed to what it IS like...

fretw...@comcast.net (Steve Carroll) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:50:57 UT

... many other posters have said a lot of justifiably negative things
about the dishonest troll named Snit and Snit is throwing a public
tantrum about it.

Re: Leopard market share???

recscuba_goo...@huntzinger.com (-hh) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:45:51 UT

The Devil's in the details ... what's your level of precision (or
lattitude) that you're applying when you claim 'corresponding'?
FWIW, I don't dispute that the trend of both has been generally "up".
I've just not bothered to do any serious analysis of the two data
sources to see to what degree they correlate, partly because the

Re: Windows 7 - THREE times longer to boot to a usable desktop then 10.5.6

thundercle...@yahoo.com (Thundercleets) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:40:08 UT

No worries, betas at M$ are a marketing stunt.
If they had followed any of the input from the Vista beta than would
we should not have the Vista that we now know and loath. To be fair I
think that the problem that most people have with Vista is that M$
took so long to come out with it, hyped it as ^sliced baked goods and

Re: Leopard market share???

alangba...@telus.net (Alan Baker) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:28:18 UT

In article <CJudnZo9jeVgOPrUnZ2dnUVZ_qDin ...@giganews.com>,
Except that the Net Applications site does show corresponding increase
in Mac OS X market share.

Re: Leopard market share???

recscuba_goo...@huntzinger.com (-hh) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:21:47 UT

Steve's simply trying to dodge responsibility for substantiating an
assertion that he made of his own free will.
By that logic, we're all driving around in flying cars, based on
hundreds of articles over the past 50 years published in _Popular
Science_ and similar magazines...or in electric cars, based on just

Re: Maccies know it's a bad week when...

z...@fake.invalid (ZnU) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:12:33 UT

In article <2qydnXH1u-v4lPrUnZ2dnUVZ_i0AA ...@giganews.com>,
I'm saying Apple didn't have as much to present because Apple's
development and release schedules are no longer based around when
MacWorld occurs, which they pretty obviously used to be.
And that one of the reasons Apple probably changed that policy is that

Re: Winows 7 - Same Old Sluggish Microsoft Crap

mackay.st...@att.net (Steve Mackay) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:59:58 UT

John wrote:
So what is technically incompetent about not pirating it, or not having
a MSDN, or Technet account any longer?
So John, why not prove to us your technical prowess and prove to us on
how long it takes to install it? Take some videos and post it up. Until
then, I'd say you're completely full of shit, like usual.

Re: Psystar sales booming!

peter.koehlm...@arcor.de (Peter Köhlmann) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:57:05 UT

ZnU wrote:
If you want to have comments on points, simply make them.
What you are doing is the equivalent of the typical Snot Glasser circus,
namely retroactivly claiming some "universal point" everyone else fails to
understand/respond to/prove/disprove/you name it
But it seems that *you* are unable to, and you yourself lack the mental