Posted on 05/26/2011 2:21:53 AM PDT by Swordmaker
The question begets, why is Windows more popular than Mac’s
Thanks.
Did you not pay attention to what I just told you? The Mac can run MORE software than your PCs can. . . natively. Why do you think web developers are choosing the Mac for their platform of choice.
It might be able to do so, but there aren’t as many choices out there as far as I know.
What are the stats of the number of home computers running Mac and how many are running Windows?
Thanks Swordmaker!
“The question begets, why is Windows more popular than Mac’s”
Because MS does not make computers.
You really DON'T pay attention, do you? I just got through telling you that with a Mac you can choose ALL of the Mac OSX catalog of software and then you can also choose ALL of the UNIX catalog of software, and then you can choose ALL of the Linux catalog of software, and then, Jonty, you can chose ALL of the WINDOWS 95, 98, XP, Vista, and 7 catalog of software! And Jonty? You can, if you wish, run all of that simultaneously and natively as separate instances on the same machine...even an iMac can do it. If you add in the iOS catalog which is developed on the Mac and will run on it, then that adds a catalog of 500,000 more apps!
You cannot say that a computer that runs all the choices of your computer and THEN more of its own, and hundreds of thousands of other Apps from other OSes, that will run natively on the Mac (!) has fewer choices than yours.
The stats you requst are irrelevant. . . especially when you are arguing quality, unless you want to claim a Ford F-150 pickup truck is the best quality automobile on the market in the United States in 2010? It certainly was the best selling. I'd argue that any model Lincoln would run rings around the Ford pickup in quality standards... but the quantity would be considerably fewer.
Similarly, millions of kindergartners turn out artwork every year... There are literally a glut on the market of such paintings... probably out numbering the Windows computers in use in the world. There are also lots of art created by Grand Masters that are much higher in quality than those efforts created by those five year olds, but the number of masterpieces is in the tens of thousands... Why aren't there more? Could it be there aren't enough grandmasters turning out masterpieces to compete with those kindergartners? Just as there is only ONE Apple Inc. producing Mac computers competing with hundreds of PC makers putting out Windows computers.
I have a pc and anti virus etc software. Am I protected?
***By your logic, the best restaurants must therefore be Macdonalds. . . and the best coffee must be Starbucks. Your logic that popularity defines quality fails.***
LOL!
Excellent advice and the best instructions I have seen anywhere.
Thanks for the compliment... pass the instructions around to every Mac user you know.
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