[Am-info] New Apple store near Beantown

[John Poltorak]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:04:35AM -0500, Erick Andrews wrote:
> It's nice to see even a little more competition to M$ even though
> very small.   Actually, this new retail store is not near any Microsoft
> facilities, here in the People Republic of Cambridge, but I know that
> it is right across the street from Lotus' headquarters.
> 
> For all you Mac folks, here's the item...


I hate to see people perpetuating this myth... Apple is not a Microsoft 
competitor. Apple is a hardware company. To suggest that Apple is a 
competitor dilutes the case that Microsoft has a 100% monopoly on the 
desktop, and you get stupid commentators saying that you are not forced to  
use Windows 'cos you can always buy a Mac'. Until MacOS runs on Intel it  
cannot be described as something which provides any real choice to using 
Windows. 

To all intents and purposes you are tied in to buying Windows when you buy 
a PC even though it is not required for using the PC. This is something 
which must be drilled home so that it eventually gets through to the 
general public. 

 
> -- 
> Erick Andrews

-- 
John