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To: soup who wrote (22773)	1/24/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

Assorted bits: Apple's Q4 market share in Canada: 4.05% up from 2.9% from a year earlier. In units, the increase in shipments was 55.9% from 18,200 units to 28,400. The leader is IBM with market share of 22.5%. I don't like the blue starfish G3s. The iMacs look cute, the G3s are too bulky. The one in black and white looks really cool. Why the change in color from bondi blue to blueberry. Was the original bondi blue copyrighted, perhaps? There is nothing wrong with Apple pioneering technologies such as firewire. There is plenty wrong when that is done at the cost of backward compatibility. It is but one example of "screw our loyal users" attitude from Apple. Ditto for high prices. In the past I mentioned that at some point some of those attitudes from yore that placed this company in a bind were due to resurface....