@All. I doubt David started this post with the idea of having a fight or spawn an argument.

@Aki. In as much as i have found great assistance from you in the past and have a good deal of respect in the way you normally deal with things, i am beginning to feel that this is a rather personal matter that you're now starting to attack anytime someone mentions the word Apple or Mac OS. It scares me to think of what happens when the fruit guy walks by to sell Apples.

Please refrain from causing such counterproductive arguments, there's a lot more we can discuss over the operating systems religion war. And twisting people's words to suit your ill-faced argument is not cool. How did you turn this:

Phares:

Thing is, the Mac was never designed for people in lower income countries... Our pricing in Africa is actually higher than in the US... If your income is on average 45,000 USD per capita, a MacBook is not too expensive.

In to :
@Phares, I tend to disgaree with you on this point "the Mac was never designed for people in lower income countries". Was it then designed for the large middle income sector in the USA? So why would anyone even want to compare MAC and PC on the same level?
 
On a second thought, you are right. MAC never wanted the rest of the world to become computer literate, is a good start... :-)

How does any of this target the world to become computer illiterate? What on earth are you on about guy? are you starting a 99% movement against Apple?

W.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Frankline Chitwa <frank.chitwa@gmail.com> wrote:
Not really, I think the developer community would much freer than it is today. Linux (in a different name) would come along. And the open source community would be better unified and not seeking patents for the sole reason of protecting itself from litigation.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:39 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Frankline, the niche that you talk about would have ensured that you would have remained computer ilitrate and never seen a KYBD in your entire life. :-)

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Frankline Chitwa <frank.chitwa@gmail.com> wrote:
And I thought it was an open source-windows war. Now windows is taking it to the other side. Apparently it depends on the price stratification. Open source bash windows windows bash mac and open source. Mac bash windows. Oh am seeing a pattern here. Its the problem of being in the middle thats disturbing window. Alijaribu kupita kati kati yao!!

Anyway, bashing aside, every seller looks for a niche, and mac have found theirs and are filling it very well, their prices and finish quality is all about their niche market. It so happens that macs are so good that people seem to want them, despite their reservations on other systems. Therefore, people know if you want a mac you pay the price. Same goes to all the  other systems, if you want freedom, you get linux.

Now the problem with windows. Nah let me not talk about it for now, this may just start a flame war. LEt me just stop where praise macs.


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