Re: We need answers and software for IIGS

[cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)]

In article <44nh9j$qfp@news.iii.net>,
Mark Gerstmann <markg@wnsi.iii.net> wrote:
>
>While I'm here - when I asked the owner of a local computer store

When did you do this?

> whether
>it made sense to buy a Mac instead of a PC, he said that Macintosh as a 
>company is "hurting". 

It's "Apple." "Macintosh" is the name of the computer. (Awshutup for a
moment, Apple II fanatics.)

> Is this MACaphobia or is there truth to this?

Depends on what one means by "hurting," and what lies in the immediate
future (hang on). Wrt market share, I think Macs hover around the 10%
mark. Wrt profits, they've been about 20% up from last year. About the
immediate future: Apple just released a new line of portables. Evidently
they heat up pretty badly, and hundreds have to be returned. This
undoubtedly will hurt Apple somewhat, but don't expect the company to go
under in the near future.

>I know NOTHING about Macs, please enlighten me as to there strengths and
>weaknesses as compared to IBM PCs.

Oh  p l e a s e , folks, if you do this, try to be objective.. we don't
need another flamefest.

>I realize that I've asked a lot in this posting -please excuse my excitement.

No need to apologize. Compared to many other articles, yours was short
and on topic.

>-Mark 
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