Comments on: Product Loyalty http://highdesertwanderer.com/archives/564 Random mutterings of a wandering cowboy turned graphic designer Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:25:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jan http://highdesertwanderer.com/archives/564/comment-page-1#comment-1686 jan Sat, 21 Oct 2006 03:17:08 +0000 http://highdesertwanderer.com/archives/564#comment-1686 That does sound a little silly! I don't use Outlook or Thunderbird, all my email is web based. I do use Firefox, but it's a little annoying in some ways (like the cursor keys to scroll up/down don't work for some sites, apparently at random) and really annoying for other reasons (the Java uploader at my gallery site is very very slllllloooooowwwwww), but I love the tabs and the popup blocker is better. I'm not exactly a power user in case you haven't noticed... :) That does sound a little silly!

I don’t use Outlook or Thunderbird, all my email is web based. I do use Firefox, but it’s a little annoying in some ways (like the cursor keys to scroll up/down don’t work for some sites, apparently at random) and really annoying for other reasons (the Java uploader at my gallery site is very very slllllloooooowwwwww), but I love the tabs and the popup blocker is better. I’m not exactly a power user in case you haven’t noticed… :)

]]> By: rightwingprof http://highdesertwanderer.com/archives/564/comment-page-1#comment-1677 rightwingprof Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:26:13 +0000 http://highdesertwanderer.com/archives/564#comment-1677 Hmmmm. I wouldn't call it loyalty. Apple customers are loyal. Hell, they hang onto all kinds of myths that haven't been true for over ten years, and pay ridiculously high prices for computers just because they won't own anything else. I've never met anybody who said, "I'll never own anything but a Wintel." I use Thunderbird, but I don't much like it for about forty different reasons. It's a vasty inferior product to Firefox. I won't use Outlook. About the only Microsoft software I can actually say I really love is Excel. Word's fine. I have no reason to switch from Word (and open office sucks out loud and always has). Access is a poor excuse for a RDBMS, but it's been getting better over the last few releases. And VBA makes it highly customizable. MS won the market because they had the applications, and they had the applications because they didn't keep a stranglehold on the software developers like Apple did. MS didn't target geeks. They targetted you know, normal people. And normal people don't care about stability, or operating systems. They buy computers for what they'll do. Applications. Hmmmm. I wouldn’t call it loyalty. Apple customers are loyal. Hell, they hang onto all kinds of myths that haven’t been true for over ten years, and pay ridiculously high prices for computers just because they won’t own anything else. I’ve never met anybody who said, “I’ll never own anything but a Wintel.”

I use Thunderbird, but I don’t much like it for about forty different reasons. It’s a vasty inferior product to Firefox. I won’t use Outlook.

About the only Microsoft software I can actually say I really love is Excel. Word’s fine. I have no reason to switch from Word (and open office sucks out loud and always has). Access is a poor excuse for a RDBMS, but it’s been getting better over the last few releases. And VBA makes it highly customizable.

MS won the market because they had the applications, and they had the applications because they didn’t keep a stranglehold on the software developers like Apple did. MS didn’t target geeks. They targetted you know, normal people. And normal people don’t care about stability, or operating systems. They buy computers for what they’ll do. Applications.

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