Re: GenieLamp editorial

[wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul Creager)]

Soenke Behrens (sbehrens@contech.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: >wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul Creager) wrote:
: >If and when Apple goes under, is bought out, or whatever, I won't be too sad.

: You should be. Where would PC operating systems be today if it weren't for
: the Mac? You said yourself: Windows95 is more Mac-like than ever. In other
: words: MS copies, they do not invent. Where will the driving force behind
: GUI development and "friendly" computing be?

My point was that Apple is losing marketshare every day.  This cannot 
continue forever.  I'm talking percentage here.  There will be people 
using Macs for years to come, just as we use our II's.  But the numbers 
of PC units far outweighs the number of Mac units.  More so than ever.

My reaction to that fact (ie, that I'm not sad) is based on the way Apple 
has treated the II.  They deserve the hole they have dug for themselves.  
The Mac was an innovator.  Like I said, I prefer the Mac over the PC.  
(But neither over my GS :)  But I'm tired of being the underdog.  If and 
when it's time to buy another computer, it sure in hell won't be a Mac!

Oh and BTW, Xerox started what the Mac made popular, as I'm sure you 
know.  Apple refined it and made it commercial.  As the Mac OS is now 
approaching version 8, and Win95 is playing catch-up, I think the whole 
concept is aging.  GUI I mean.  The next step in operating systems should 
be radically different.  Interacting with the computer needs to become 
simpler still.