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To: Richard Habib who wrote (6644)	12/9/1997 1:07:00 PM
From: Eric Yang	of 213173

Richard, I don't know exactly what I said in Message 2896260 that made you nervous.You're a PC user and I am a Mac die-hard, naturally we see things from two differnet perspectives. Your primary concern is the share price of AAP. My loyalty lies with the Mac and the well being of Apple. I agree with you that AAPL's declining market share is not sustainable but we differ in how that could be changed. I think adding a operating system level X86 emulator with PPC native Windows API and will provide a practical solution. It would provide the performance and compatibility required for platform convergence without sacrificing key elements of the Mac. Coming from the PC world you're more than happy to see the "Intel Inside" logo next to our colored fruit. To me just thinking about it makes my stomach turn. From a technical point of view, the x86 was a brain dead architecture from the start. It uses some of the dumbest and most awkward ideas in microprocessor design. In the early days of PCs IBM's own engineers wanted to use Motorola's processor but for political reasons IBM settle for Intel's buggy design. I know this is ancient history but I think it demonstrates the difference between PC and Mac users. The idea behind PC has always been: "get something that's cheap, get something that works...if it won't work tomorrow who cares. We'll get something that's cheap, slap it together and make it work tomorrow" Mac users want more than something that works. We want elegant solutions to problems. Not only do we just want machines that work we want them to be something we can be proud of. And if it should cost a bit more, so be it. It's a very different kind of mentality. Eric

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