On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 07:53:36 -0800 (PST), Whisky-dave
wrote:

On Friday, 10 November 2017 07:04:33 UTC, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:46:04 -0500, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

On a current iMac it can easily take an hour or more. Tedious. And no
reason to make it so difficult other than the Apple aesthetic.

the reason is that opening a computer is rarely done, if ever, and
optimizing for that scenario stupid.

By that reasoning, all PC box manufacturers and assemblers, including HP
and Dell are run by stupid people.

pretty much, and a very accurate assessment of dell.

They must be doing something right. They have twice the market share
of Apple.

market share doesn't matter and apple doesn't chase it anyway.

apple, with it's supposedly 'low market share', is on the verge of
becoming the first *trillion* dollar company, while hp, with 'twice the
market share of apple', is but a tiny fraction of apple, currently
about $35b.

if anyone is doing something right, it's apple.

But it's not with desktop PCs.

How have you worked that one out ?

Sticking with subject of Dell vs Apple the data in the following link
(previously deleted by nospam) explains why I made that remark.

"They must be doing something right. They have twice the market share
of Apple. See http://tinyurl.com/hoz6vdg or
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/04/11/apple-grows-to-74-of-worldwide-pc-market-as-windows-continues-to-cede-share-to-the-mac"



also keep in mind that most of hp and dell sales are corporate
contracts, not end users, which is a totally different market segment,
something those who mindlessly spout market share numbers fail to
understand.

A desktop computer sold is a desktop computer sold. It doesn't really
matter who the buyer is.

It does if you're trying to work out what people prefer it is key.
from about 1994 the head of department banned the purchase of mac because Apple were going out of business, so we in teching weren't allowed to buy Macs.
Those doing research that had grants told him we will buy what we want and they kept buying macs, mostly laptops.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens