Re: A2Central News

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <1158732928.366476.11380@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
 "mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> 
> > As a rule, the underdog mentality is required to get strong emotional
> > commitment--kind of a defensive thing.  The top dog can't be bothered.
> 
> I always thought it was an insecurity thing, since the platforms offer
> essentially equivalent functionality - the Mac crowd has to justify to
> themselves their choice to spend (in some cases) considerably more
> money on a tool the does exactly the same job as a cheaper one.
> 
> But I guess being the underdog makes one insecure :-)

But, Mac's are no longer considerably more expensive that comparative 
Dells.  (I use Dells because they are supposed to be the big low priced 
PC manufacturer.)  If you go and spec out similar machines on either 
site, Apple comes in really close.  Lower in some setups, really close 
in others and sometimes only a little bit higher in price.  Now yes, you 
can build your own PC for less, but, like you can't build your own Dell 
(with Dell's support and warranty behind it), you can't build your own 
Mac.

> I mused recently that Apple's platform shift puts them in a potentially
> interesting position. Where they to capture a lions share of the
> market, they could find themselves on the receiving end of an
> anti-trust lawsuit from a competing vendor (like a Dell or HP), since
> Apple having exclusive rights to Mac OS X gives them an 'unfair'
> competitive advantage.
> 
> Now that would be an amusing little tussle ;-)

If I was Apple, my response would be: "We're not stopping them from 
putting the money, time and development of their own OS."  :-)

Greg B.

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