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Originally Posted by willravel
I wasn't suggesting it was good, I was suggesting that marketshare is relative. A marketshare of 2%-5% does not mean it is doing poorly.Fuel is a poor analogy, actually it'd be better to say it has a differently designed tranny or engine. It's a one time purchase for the OS. So long as your mechanic supports your tranny or engine, it doesn't matter.
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A Mazda RX-8 has a differently-designed engine (rotary). A Ford 500 has a differently designed tranny (CVT, no gears). And both of them compose a miniscule percentage of all the cars out there. But they'll still go on the same roads any other car will go. You don't have to stick to driving the Mazda on rotary-compatible roads or else install a "piston engine emulator" that kills a third of your horsepower to go where 95% of cars can travel. That's what I was getting at with the Mac/BMW analogy.
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What in IE6 do you need that isn't in 5 specifically for your web design? The emulators are there for people who need to use things like IE6, but you should be able to do your work on another browser.
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I don't design pages specifically for IE6, but I certainly want to see if I made any mistakes that would affect how it renders under that browser considering that the vast majority of people out there use it. Fortunately anything that renders well under Firefox or previous IE versions will probably be just fine, but it would be rather embarrassing in the event that was not the case.
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You said "Among the people who DO buy Macs, a very large amount of them them just want a cute conversation piece" that not only disrespects those who own Macs (like myself), it is completly untrue of almost all Mac owners.
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I used to work in tech support, I've talked to more than enough typical computer owners. I have no problem saying the majority of people who buy PCs got one (and usually the cheapest piece of shit they could find) so they could see what this newfangled "Internet" thing is their kids/grandkids keep talking about, or they need to have one for school/work, or they feel obligated because everyone else has one, etc. That's no insult to the countless people who are knowledgeable about PCs, that's just the truth. Just like how Apple specifically markets to people who think PCs are too complicated, and who want a cool-looking trendy computer that they can show off to their friends. Nothing against you and the many other genuine computer enthusiasts who happen to prefer Macs, it's reality.
The Mac/Windows war will never end, but geez, you've got to admit that Macs have some significant weaknesses. I'm a huge fan of Linux for server applications, whereas everyone else at the company I work for thinks Windows/ASP.NET is the best thing ever.
So I know how it is to be in the minority and frustrated about other peoples' misconceptions. And I enjoy showing off how much traffic even a crappy Linux server can handle, and how everything just friggin' works, and that 99% of the time you can find an free open-source solution to do something that either costs a crapload of money or simply can't be done under Windows. But I'll readily admit that a Linux server is much more of a pain in the ass to set up from scratch compared to a Windows machine with no prior experience, or that it's pretty sad that ACL's are JUST NOW kind of coming into the mainstream under Linux whereas Windows has supported them for years, or that MySQL can't do things like views, stored procedures, etc. that MSSQL has been doing for over half a decade. Every platform has its ups and downs.