[Ti] Market Share: 2.3% -- That's NOT good press, coupled with the loss

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> Folks...PLEASE...Apple needs to work on an OS that can take ANY Windoze
> application and run it just as good or BETTER on the Mac OS (like being
> able to play the same record on a superior HI FI...or whatever appropriate
> analogy you care for)

I have always thought that this was a good idea. A Mac OS that would allow
you to take Windows files and applications and work with them with only a
double click just makes sense.

As thing stand now, switchers face a conversion something like a religious
conversion that asks to leave nearly all their comfortable bad habits behind
cold turkey. Certainly anyone using such a machine would choose Mac apps
whenever possible.

The REAL problem with market share, specifically the number of retail
purchases of computers, is that this point of sale is when the vast majority
of third-party software is sold.  The Mac will live or die according to the
availability of third-party applications for it.  A relatively small number
of Mac sales means a relatively small number of software sales, as well. It
is hard to argue with the notion that developing for the huge base of Wintel
machines has the potential for greater profit.

Apple needs to get the tools out to convert the zillions of UNIX apps to run
on OS X easily.  That would more than level the playing field.
-Joel