Which goes to illustrate just how sicko the average Mactoid fanboi really is. They won’t shut up long enough to listen.

For example, I haven’t had any issues with Vista AT ALL. And I love it: it’s cool, intuitive, solid, and makes going back to XP a “ho-hum” eXPerience.

But here they are, dissin’ Vista as if they actually KNOW anything about it. Failure? News flash: it’s shipping daily on gajillions of computers to satisfied users. Truth. But try telling that to a “A-hole.”

Apple’s marketshare is not “going nowhere year after year” as you claim. Actually, it has been rising, and if anything, accelerating. If you have proof to the contrary, I’d like to see it.

The Mac which has been marginalized for years has now become a credible alternative to the Wintel PC. A growing number of switchers (fed up with Microsoft Windows) are testifying of their satisfaction with the Mac.

Regarding immature irrational misinformed fanboys, Apple doesn’t have the monopoly (as your own posting proves). Vehement Apple-haters are just as much a cult as those you accuse.

I hope this post was not too “painful and desperate”.

A LMAO eg today one fanboy (saying the usual how perfectley his 25 macs have run cf. use of one PC) said he was PROUD to be part of the CULT. The whole point of a cult is that it is based on irrational emotional thinking the complete opposite of objective fact based decission making, the only valueable way to make the most superior/efficient choice for a functional/labour saving/tool/gadjet.

Another friend bought an iMac and I agreed to help her set it up. I took it out of the box, turned it on, and it crashed on its first boot ever.

I’m a PC guy, I buy from Dell and no-name vendors, and I’ve never had a PC fail except for a couple of hard drives that started grinding and got replaced. I try to tell the Apple fanboy “I own just as many computers as you do, and they never break”, and he just won’t hear it – doesn’t change his opinion of Apple at all.

Apple : computer :: Jaguar : car

Apple may (and this is debatable) have software that is superior in some ways to some other computer systems, but their hardware is both inferior and overpriced.

These days Apple is not a computer company anyway. They’re an iPod company that makes computers on the side.

there is a different is getting assistance. microsoft’s web site is a mess and their phone support is nothing to write home about. with apple you can always get help and if the person can’t help there is no problem going “up the line” as i once had to do with a 2Wire modem/router and my wife’s macbook.

Microsoft has been promising vaporware and peddling mediocre software for years, but because “its the standard” people just accept what they get. What else could they do?

The press has been complicit in promoting Microsoft despite its ethical lapses and technical shortcomings. Advertising dollars buy influence.

Microsoft solutions are the bread and butter of IT departments. The more problems the better, as it justifies departmental head-count.

Hell, even the US government lets Microsoft off with a slap on the wrist for gross antitrust violations.

On the other hand, Apple is routinely trivialized as producing toys for dummies rather than “serious” computers for professionals. Apple products are belittled as underpowered, overpriced, incompatible boutique machines. Every design and policy decision they make is attacked.

Considering all the criticism (both legitimate and undeserved), why is Apple gaining marketshare? Maybe because, despite its glitches, Apple still provides a better ownership and user experience than the competition.

You should have heard the pundits criticisms of Apple 10 years ago. The company couldn’t buy a positive comment.