comp.sys.mac.advocacy

In article ,
Mayor of R'lyeh wrote:

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> Applying your thinking to other situations shows just how silly your
> position is. If you ran a store where 90% of your customers wanted
> peaches but you didn't like peaches so you sold strawberries instead
> even though hardly anyone bought them you'd be out of business soon.
> Standing at the door and railing that no one buying your strawbeeries
> is a sign of market failure and a sign that your shoppers are clueless
> would just serve to highlight your mental instability and arrogance
> instead of saying anything meaningful, or even true, about your
> shoppers.

Your scenario appears to have no relationship to anything being
discussed here. For starters, believe it or not, customers don't
actually prefer inferior rendering engines -- a popular browser which
customers use for unrelated reasons just happens to have one. Moreover,
developers *are* delivering what customers want (i.e. web sites that
work in their browsers). They're just not doing so as efficiently as
they could be, because IE's bugs introduce inefficiencies into the
process.

Do you not understand how developer productivity (or producer
productivity in general, for that matter) translates pretty much
directly into better products and/or lower prices for consumers?

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