"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ignorance of College Students is Keeping Windows On Top of Mac
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> | The first 20 minutes of the class was completely wasted while a
> | majority of the Windows Users had questions for the teacher on
> | why they were getting errors from IE while opening the excel
> | document (I'm not exaggerating this). I was all ready to
> | go on my MacBook.
> |
The author is a smug sort of person, I sense, and yet another incidence of
not understanding the environment due to a faulty point of view. He
suggests that people try OSX, but that is not what people do. They try out
computers, not an OS. The Apple and the Dell are absolutely identical from
their point of view since they do the same thing in the same way. The
configuration of the machine, whether it is an Apple MacBook, or a Dell
notebook, or even some Linux notebook is only a vague measure of perceived
quality to the buyer. Apple computers have an image of being finer designs
with a high price that appeal to the artsy crowd. Jerry Seinfeld had an
Apple computer as a prop on his show a few years ago. Windows is seen as an
expected item in the purchase and when it is missing, the user sees a
differentiation in product quality. Whether that is good, bad, or
indifferent is a function of how the product is presented. The computers at
Wal-Mart that provide Linux are bottom of the line, minimal expense
computers that the buyer naturally relegates emotionally to a lower quality
level than something costing more at the same outlet. If a trusted advisor
touts Linux, the buyer can be convinced to accept the substitution,
otherwise, no sale except at distressed pricing levels ala Wal-Mart.
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