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Re: mac sales down

Alan Baker
SubjectRe: mac sales down
FromAlan Baker
Date05/16/2008 06:18 (05/16/2008 06:18)
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In article <Ei4Xj.20837$C8.9119@bignews2.bellsouth.net>, "weedhopper" <whopper@verizon.com>wrote:

weedhopper
"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@telus.net>wrote in message news:alangbaker-FAD1E5.13253515052008@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net]...

Alan Baker
In article <ca0b1$482c9a85$18545@news.teranews.com>, Glorb <Glorb@orb.com>wrote:

Glorb
Alan Baker wrote:

Alan Baker
In article <86688$482c9521$14912@news.teranews.com>, Glorb <Glorb@orb.com>wrote:

Glorb
Alan Baker wrote:

Alan Baker
In article <YA%Wj.20675$C8.6724@bignews2.bellsouth.net>, "weedhopper" <whopper@verizon.com>wrote:

weedhopper
"-hh" <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>wrote in message news:7988aad6-8c46-429b-bbae-3d66a38f16f1@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com ...

-hh
Mayor of R'lyeh <mayor.of.rl...@gmail.com>wrote:

Mayor Of R'lyeh
Most people simply aren't braindead OS bigots like you are George.

-hh
And sales figures show that fewer people are brainwashed into believing that Windows is the only possible choice. So besides slinging gratuitous insults, what's your point, Mayor?

weedhopper
Do you mean that 3% World wide who use OSX? Yes, they're few all right.

Alan Baker
Sorry, Zara, but your own recent post agree that 7.4% is the correct figure.

weedhopper
World marketshare and US marketshare are two different numbers, as you well know AlanFish.

I do well know it.

I also know that http://marketshare.hitslink.com/ is not tracking US market share.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8614

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