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[H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
> JEDIDIAH wrote:
> > On 2006-11-02, yttrx <yttrx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> Any coffeeshop you walk into in manhattan, you'll see more than 80%
> >> of the people with laptops using OSX, and in certain neighborhoods
> >> even more than that.
>
> > A limited sample that is the very definition of statistical skew.
>
> I've yet to see a Mac in the wild (anywhere but in a shop) in my
> travels around the UK, running OSX or anything else. I've seen a fair
> number of Linux machines though, and in particular the adoption of
> Ubuntu is staggering.
Well, my No1 lad's got a Mac, as have my parents-in-law (they got sick of
Windows slowing down and collapsing on them). The head of my school
uses a Mac laptop all the time. I came out of a meeting on Monday where
one guy was using a Mac laptop. My No1 lad's teacher uses a Mac. A few
years back, Macs had almost disappeared, but they're back in the public
consciousnous. I don't see anyone being particularly interested in
Vista.
Ubuntu is growing like crazy, I'll agree, and I think it will be the big
catalyst for cracking the MS desktop monopoly, although as I've said
elsewhere, I think this will go hand in hand with the desktop itself
fragmenting into multiple smaller markets.
>
> On my last contract overseas I did see some American guy with a Mac
> laptop (some small silver thing with a glowing Blue apple on the lid),
> and that was actually the first time I'd ever seen one without a price
> tag on it.
>
I'm seeing more and more of them.
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