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To: Alomex who wrote (12214)	4/26/1998 10:49:00 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213186

(There was a time when Apple bulls here routinely denied that Apple's marketshare was falling, that AppleOS was buggy and sorely needing an upgrade, that the Macs were effectively slower than PCs, and priced uncompetitively, that Amelio wasn't cutting deep enough, that exponential would never work, that Apple "loyal customers" were actually locked-in with little choice, and so on.) That was all well before my time on this board. I didn't join this thread until about a month ago. As for the arguments you mention, the only one of those I may have disagreed with was Exponential. I thought they had great potential as a company and a processor architecture, but when all was said and done they had little to offer over the Motorola/IBM offerings of the time. As a computer consultant, I work with both PCs and Macs. In fact, tomorrow I start class for my MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) training. Is this because I believe Microsoft offers a better OS? No way. I'm simply extending my business acumen for better marketability. Yes, there are things that Microsoft's OSes offer over the Mac OS -- but NOT in the ease of use area. The Mac OS is simply a more elegantly designed (if missing some key features) OS than anything else I know. I don't hate Wintels, I just like Macs better.