Reply #129: And the market has a place for both

[nadinbrzezinski]

and both do the job they intend to do and as you said go after a different demographic, but when you compare the stats for a netbook, they are nothing compared to the even my three year old macbook. The macbook, lowest end, still has better stats.

You simply don't like their business model.

That said, MOST users are not geeks. Most users go and buy a computer and have no clue what they are buying and you know this.

They want to take it out of the box, connect all them thingies, turn it on and have it WORK. They don't care if the machine is running OS X, tiger, snow liger, leaopard, snow leopard or whatever other kittie adopted. Or if they are running system seven... it WORKS. That's all they care for.

The problem with Linux is that there is this impression out there that it is the OS of the tinkerer... and reality is, I've done it, you can do the same with it as you do with the other two.

But these wars are more a symptom of consumerism than anything else.

They are things, and they do not command the loyalty (as much as they get it) from their customers. Windows cares little for the individual consumer. And neither does Mac.. or for that matter Ubuntu... cog\machine\ is it coke or is it Pepsi?

Move on.

These are tools... and the GIT OF ME LAWN you could have bought a lot more for a lot less... applies to those buying the parts themselves and putting them together.

By the way, that's not the kind of work I want to do anymore. There was a time when I'd not mind it but my time is far more valuable than doing that anymore. And in the end they all process ones and zeroes, and are just tools.