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Old 03-08-2014, 03:57 PM   #177
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Originally Posted by Rizla View Post
I did acknowledge the unfairness of the test in principle, but that in practice it's a fair test. Windows is the massively dominant force in personal computing. Apple has to deal with MS, not the other way, round purely because of the numbers.
You said that Apple's OS "famously doesn't get on with the greater outside-world of other OSes". That's not a claim about market dominance, it's a claim about interoperability between OSes. In the deeply technical environment in which I work, Windows and OSX are about equally represented, making up about a third each, with the other third mostly a combination of free Unix-ish OSes - principally Linux with some others such as FreeBSD etc. Of those, the one that causes by far the most pain in terms of playing well with the others is Windows.

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