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To: tacticalogic
Users will go where the applications are, and the applications will be where the developers are.

True. Apple Software was so much easier, much more intuitive, and so consistent that key commands were easily remembered, because they were always the same, program to program.

But, vendors developed more applications for Windows, than A/OS. The rest is history.

49 posted on 10/14/2010 7:52:29 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2
But, vendors developed more applications for Windows, than A/OS. The rest is history.

Another factor in the equation was Microsoft's agnosticism with respect to hardware. More variety of available peripherals and adapter cards provided more opportunities to develop applications that could leverage that hardware.

50 posted on 10/14/2010 7:58:46 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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