Bill,
Your pro-PC world view is a strange mixture of fact and fantasy. A week or so ago, you forcefully argued on this thread that Apple was having trouble recruiting and that the recruits it was getting were low quality. I provided a link to a "San Jose Mercury News" (SJMN) article, an interview with an Apple recruiter actually, that said the exact opposite. You closed-off the discussion by disparaging the SJMN, questioning the integrity of the Apple recruiter and citing your personal observations of recruiting efforts at Silicon Valley trade shows.
You have asserted your strongly held belief that PCs were more upgradeable than Macs and that the need for constant change/upgrades to PCs to keep them up-to-date was a sign of superior engineering, a sign of strength. You further claimed that the PC world was more innovative than the Mac world. When I pointed out that there was an excellent upgrade path for Macs, that the Mac was better designed right out of the box and dismissed your "more innovative" thesis out of hand, you exploded, calling Mac users "stupid" for favoring a machine that was easier to use.
You subsequently backed-down from your "stupid" thesis, claiming you were just trying to start a discussion. For the most part, the regulars on this thread let you slide, although I suspect that your virtual slip-of-the-tongue was a true reflection of how you really feel.
Now we're in a discussion of Apple's share of the education market. You claim Apple has lost the market. I quoted a story, and gave you the link, showing Apple with 56% of the market last school year and projecting a 3% gain next school year. You've attempted to close off the discussion by citing your own personal observations of school classrooms. Is there a pattern developing here? Which one of us do you suppose a disinterested third party observer would feel is manufacturing "facts?"
Do you have a solid source to substantiate your assertion that students are abandoning the Mac except where Apple provides subsidies? Just what proportion of college students use a Mac? How about a PC?
Bob |
