This is different from other companies how?

Post #190,355 by pwhysall 1/16/05 7:22:35 AM Reply	This is different from other companies how? Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #190,381 by Andrew Grygus 1/16/05 2:07:28 PM Reply	It is different . . . . . in that no other company has an unquestioning army of worshipers to keep them alive no matter what they do. No other company could have made so many mistakes on such a scale as Apple has and survive. I recall some years back eating lunch at a Thai restaurant. In came 6 or 7 guys wearing "screw the establishment" casual with a uniformity of style and grooming the strictest dress code would be hard put to enforce. I said out loud, "Mac users". Sure enough, they sat down and started talking about their Macs before even looking at the menu. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #190,382 by pwhysall 1/16/05 2:13:08 PM Reply	There is one "company" with more zealous users... ...and by orders of magnitude, because they've not had a viable product in a decade. Amiga. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #190,394 by Andrew Grygus 1/16/05 3:12:27 PM Reply	Um, help me here . . . . . . I'm having a hard time conceptualizing Amiga users as an "army". [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #190,404 by pwhysall 1/16/05 4:29:47 PM Reply	Fair cop I suppose they'd have to leave their parents' basements for that. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #190,424 by broomberg 1/16/05 8:07:50 PM Reply	Amiga in the business world My brother's Amiga story: He was working for either a glass factory or a meat-packing plant (sorry, I'm not checking with him right now, and that's all I remember). He was an "industrial engineer" doing time-studies. They had a mainframe with green-screens. The green-screens had a print key, that would end up printing the current screen back at the data center. He used the blank screen as a word processor. Which meant every time he printed, someone in the data center would then get the printout and route it to him. This ended up being a lot of single screen prints. They were not amused. They revoked his access. So he bought an Amiga out of the office supply budget. He LOVED it.

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