[chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 45, Issue 13

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On 9/14/2012 8:22 AM, chirp_users-request at intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
> ...Heh, I hadn't heard that, and I'm certainly skeptical of such a 
> claim. However, regardless of growth, there's a lot of ground to make 
> up. Further, due to Windows' architecture, some of the driver cores 
> have been around longer than OSX has been a commercial product. Yikes, 
> I sound like a Windows advocate. Ya'll know I don't own a single 
> machine with Windows on it, right?? :) 
One of the points that often get lost in such comparisons are whether 
you are speaking of Apple hardware vs PC hardware... or Apple vs a 
particular brand of PC hardware.  I remember back in the days of IBM 
PCs... "IBM" had clearly won the sales war at that point in terms of 
their hardware architecture (and OS such as it was then)... but Apple 
sold more personal computers than IBM did.  IBM set the standard... but 
didn't profit from it!  I don't keep track of this stuff on an ongoing 
basis, but I suspect Apple has been competitive with any given PC brand 
pretty much continuously.  They certainly have a long history of being 
'on top' of the customer satisfaction/reliability/etc surveys.

Which isn't to say that I'm an Apple owner.  Don't even own an iP* .  
Last Apple I owned was an Apple IIc!  There are other considerations... 
and for me and my world... I don't really have a practical choice but 
stick in the Microsoft camp.  Still, I can't blame Apple owners for 
loving their toys!

Dave