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To: Dave Budde who wrote (32852)	3/25/2002 5:33:13 PM
From: jonkai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Don, re: "I keep seeing posts talking about Win-Intel users buying the Mac. Any info about this from a non-Apple source? " i'm a non-apple source and i have three wintel friends buying iMacs... but Don doesn't believe me i guess.... jon.

To: Dave Budde who wrote (32852)	3/26/2002 2:54:57 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 213182

Re: Stories about Windows users using Macs Dave - While the stories you linked to are not full of hard market data, the mere fact that such articles are being written for and published by serious PC and business magazines is a clear indication of a growing trend. People are beginning to look at the Mac differently. It's getting a lot more respect, suddenly. BTW, I happen to think that if Apple had never existed, we wouldn't all be using Radio Shack computers in a text-only world. I believe UNIX would have given Microsoft more of a run for its desktop money. Sun or some other company would have stepped into the personal computer fray and taken a decent market share. PC's running DOS would have been competitive simply based on price, and would have spread throughout the business world. Microsoft would have gone graphical after X-Windows became popular on Sun desktop computers, first just tacking something klugey on top of DOS, then gradually improving and refining the thing until it was nearly useable. I think that by now PCs would dominate (the cheapness factor), but a lot of us would be using an operating system based on UNIX, with a slick graphical interface that would hide the complexity of the OS from the user. Voila! OS X was historically inevitable. - Allen