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Originally Posted by Rizla
I suspect that the environment you work in is not representative of the overall market. As I see it, Apple sells mainly to private users, not professional environments.
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My experience has been that, despite your assertion that "if money is not an issue and you don't understand computers and you like shiny things, Apple is for you", the more technically expert the user, the more likely they are to use OSX. My non-technical friends use Windows almost exclusively, but amongst technical colleagues there's a much higher fraction using OSX.
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Anyway, my point still holds. Apple cannot afford to not 'get on' with Windows. Windows can ignore Apple all it wants. It's not a level playing-field. Windows is massively dominant on the personal computer world.
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I'm not disputing Windows' dominance, but pointing that out is not the same as saying that Apple's OS "famously doesn't get on with the greater outside-world of other OSes". That's a technical assertion about the interoperability of the OS, not a market dominance one. My experience is that OSX actually works very well in a mixed-OS environment, certainly better than Windows.
/JB