Is Apple doomed, the way IBM ended up in the PC market?

Per Anthony Polson:
In laptop and desktop computers, Apple had an advantage that other
manufacturers didn't: its operating system. Now Windows does most of
not all of the things that made Apple's OS distinctly different.

I used tb a total MacIntosh chauvinist. Even wrote a little
sales/inventory control application for my 7" Mac Plus to support
a backyard windsurfing equipment business.

That was a loooooong time ago.

Since then I've been making a living writing MS Office
applications that run under Window.

A few years ago, somebody graduated from design school and just
*had* to have a Mac. I bought her the biggest-baddest Mac I
could find.

Had about two weeks to fool around with it before graduation day.

My take was that Windows and Mac OS's (from the user's
perspective & plug/play) were about the same.

I'd even go so far as to say I prefer Windows XP over whatever
was running on that Mac. For one thing, there are multiple ways
to resize a window under XP. With the Mac I was restricted to
just one way.

When somebody asks me which they should get, I tell them to count
up the people they know well enough to ask for computer help and
choose the system that the most of those people have.
--
Pete Cresswell

"(PeteCresswell)" wrote:
Per Anthony Polson:
In laptop and desktop computers, Apple had an advantage that other
manufacturers didn't: its operating system. Now Windows does most of
not all of the things that made Apple's OS distinctly different.

I used tb a total MacIntosh chauvinist. Even wrote a little
sales/inventory control application for my 7" Mac Plus to support
a backyard windsurfing equipment business.

That was a loooooong time ago.

Since then I've been making a living writing MS Office
applications that run under Window.

A few years ago, somebody graduated from design school and just
*had* to have a Mac. I bought her the biggest-baddest Mac I
could find.

Had about two weeks to fool around with it before graduation day.

My take was that Windows and Mac OS's (from the user's
perspective & plug/play) were about the same.

I'd even go so far as to say I prefer Windows XP over whatever
was running on that Mac. For one thing, there are multiple ways
to resize a window under XP. With the Mac I was restricted to
just one way.

When somebody asks me which they should get, I tell them to count
up the people they know well enough to ask for computer help and
choose the system that the most of those people have.

That's probably the most useful advice anybody has given.

--
--- Paul J. Gans