From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.netins.net ([167.142.225.202] helo=cgpf1.cgp.netins.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17pwLM-0007za-00 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 15:43:08 -0400 Received: from [167.142.23.6] (HELO president731) by cgpf1.cgp.netins.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with SMTP id 148694579 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:43:10 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20020913144305.007b3330@pop3.netins.net> X-Sender: jsymes@pop3.netins.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:43:05 -0500 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Jason Symes Subject: Re: Look Out Macintosh! In-Reply-To: <20020913181453.GC3609@afb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-CD14BF; boundary="=======2E7A962=======" Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: --=======2E7A962======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-CD14BF; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Oh, I'll bet my life savings on it! I used a mac over 10 years ago, and I don't even see why 3.1 percent use macs. Interface was ugly, unfriendly, unlabeled, incompregensible, and so on and so forth! At 02:14 PM 9/13/02 -0400, you wrote: > >Yesterday's Wall Street Journal contained some interesting numbers on desktop market shares. Of course, you know who's products has the lion's share. >But check out these two numbers for number two and number three: > >Macintosh 3.1% >Linux 2.7% > >Seems to me Mac may be number three by this time next year? Anyone wanna bet on that? > >-- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > >Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > >Chair, Accessibility SIG >Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) >http://www.openebook.org > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > Jason Symes kids in the backseat can cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat can cause kids The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Arthur C. Clarke) if you stand for nothing you're liable to fall for anything. If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all! Just trying to plug away! --=======2E7A962=======--