Mac Users Speak Out
I looked forward with great anticipation to the arrival of your new section. As a Mac user, I was hoping that The Times would finally give the Macintosh its due, giving it at least the same type of coverage given to PC issues.
Alas, my hopes were dashed when reading the cover story of your very first issue. Julie Pitta, in her piece about $500 Internet boxes condemned Mac users as people who “bought into the idiosyncratic world of Apple Computer Inc.” This is typical of the Wintel-centric coverage we’ve grown so accustomed to in the L.A. Times.
I don’t understand how Ms. Pitta can refer to the Mac as “idiosyncratic” when every major technological computer advancement in the last 10 years has come out of Apple’s extensive research and development labs.
Despite some stormy times at the $11-billion company that manufactures it, the Macintosh is one of the most powerful, user-friendly, well integrated, best supported, competitively priced computers available today. The Times should recognize these facts now more than ever.
RANDALL GREENWALD
West Hollywood
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This is a very interesting new format for The Times Monday Business section, The Cutting Edge. But did I miss something? There was nothing said about Apple products, only the Bill Gates-driven world of the PC. I realize that Apple has about a 9% market share (how many other companies can boast a 9% market share?), and that the press has been having a feeding frenzy over Apple’s latest setbacks, but Apple is still a very strong competitor. Apple will bounce back.
As a director for the largest Macintosh/Apple user group in Orange County (the Orange Apple Computer Club), I respectfully request reasonably equal time for Apple products and news in The Cutting Edge.
BOB REED
CalifBobR@aol.com
