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[roni]

Bill, about this thing of Mac users deciding whether to stay or switch

langostino wrote:
"a substantial portion of the installed base has been waiting and deciding whether to stay or reverse-switch."

To which you responded:


How in the world can anyone take the fact that an existing Mac user hasn't bought a new Mac within the past year or so, and infer that they simply MUST be on the verge of downgrading to a PC?

Except it is not at all a response to what was written.

Langostino's words do not begin to imply what you wrote. it was a simple statement, and it seems to me a true one. Anyone who owns a Mac and buys a new computer decides whether to stay or to reverse switch. It is part of the buying decision. That seems self-evident.

When I bought the new iMac to replace the old one, I decided stay. Wasn't a difficult decision, but it was a decision. If I ever get to tele-commute, I'll bring a wintel machine home because it runs the software I make my living with a whole lot faster than VPC. Another easy decision (fortunately, I wouldn't have to pay for it).

Ron