Why The Mac Still Hasn’t Caught On.
While everones favorite fruit company continues to try and grab more market share, they keep missing the mark in one very important but overlooked area. Hardware is always the key. You may say but they are a hardware company and I would agree but not a very good one in the light of maintanence. No one wants to drive 50 miles or better to their closest “Fruit Stand” just to get something that any computer place should be able to repair. They make it easier to use but not easy to fix or repair. I understand they want to keep everything through them, but what they keep missing is that they should allow smaller places resell parts and fix their machines. People would have a much better cost of ownership overall and therfore would come back to them more often. I am not hating the Mac, I have a couple of them myself I am just saying they are quite a pain to repair when something goes wrong. If you were to buy a “prophet”(made up) brand car or a Ford, and everything about the prophet was better except price and the only place you could get it fixed was 50 miles away or better, but the Ford you can fix anywhere and it’s much cheaper. Which one would you go with. ( Insert your favorite brand car, doesn’t have to be Ford.) I think most people would go with the Ford for the price and the ease of repair and part availability. I know in this internet age it should make things easier as far as this stuff goes, but most non-technical people want someone to hold their hand through the repari and they want someone local that they trust not someone they don’t know 50-100 miles away that has to keep their computer for a month because they are too busy since they are the only place around. I know the Mac has a good market share right now, and I am not picking on them. I would love to see them do much better. I am only saying that after 20 years it should be better than this.