From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 09:21:41 MDT
> Charlie Stross wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:14:35PM -0400, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> > > > Clue: Microsoft's grip on the UK market is even tighter than its grip in
> > > > the US -- the Mac platform never caught on over here.
> > >
> > > My cousin who went to Oxford says that Mac is huge there.
> >
> > Huge?
> >
> > Yeah, if 2% of the market is "huge".
> >
> > Methinks you have a _very_ weird picture of how the world works in your
> > head, and the further away from the centre of your mental map you look,
> > the weirder it gets. Hence your strange image of Europe.
> >
Just reporting the word of mouth. Didn't say it was accurate. In any event, and
despite the idea that Brits might want to own something by a company named Apple
(Newton being a brit and all), I can understand that a lot of Englishmen would be
quite uncomfortable with the idea of worshipping at the altar of, and feeling
subservient to, a product with the name of a Scottish clan (MacIntosh). ;)
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