[X-Newbies] Re: Why Mac Owners Don't Invest

[Charles Martin]

> From: Alex <lists at lexial.ca>
>
>
> On May 29, 2005, at 01:36, Charles Martin wrote:
>
>
>> but any Mac owner should know right off the bat that 1-800 numbers  
>> and
>> mail order (along with cool sites like dealmac.com and lists like  
>> this
>> one) are going to be his or her best friend over the years.
>>
>
> It seems to me our American friends sometimes forget to consider that
> things don't always work in the rest of the world as they do in the  
> US.

I'm actually English, and I assure you that in most parts of the  
world, there are Mac dealers with toll-free numbers if you bother to  
look.

> The OP came from an address in Indonesia. I don't know what the Mac
> situation is in Indonesia, but, from my experience, outside the "first
> world", and especially outside North America, with a few exceptions,
> Macs represent an even smaller segment of the market.

Certainly true, but that's not to say there's nothing out there: I  
regularly correspond with a couple of Mac users in Fiji (which is one  
of the more remote places for Mac users) and they have dealers  
(admittedly not in-country, but they can get what they need nearby).


> So, all-in-all, have little more patience with Mac users who happen to
> live in less privileged areas.

I don't see how my answer was "impatient" -- this is you reading in  
something that wasn't there. My original point stands, which was  
"there are more Mac resources out there than most people realise, if  
you'll only go and look for them."


_Chas_

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