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A comment on Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline by angstrom on Thursday July 30, 2009 @09:08PM (#733517)
Apple has turned computer sales into a question of quality, much like the Japanese manufacturers gained control of the domestic car market by making it a question of quality.

Meanwhile, there are businesses that still want to run full screen 16-bit DOS programs in emulated Windows XP on 64-bit Windows 7. Windows has become a metaphor of the Russian Matryoshka nesting dolls.

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Re:Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline by ryanwaggoner on Friday July 31, 2009 @02:56AM (#733926)
Actually, Japanese car companies gained control of the US market because they offered affordable cars that were more efficient. Once consumers saw that they were getting equal or better quality for less money, they switched.
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Re:Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline by Sandra_Snan on Friday July 31, 2009 @11:07AM (#734551)
That’s the US market, but the parent wrote “domestic” which, as far as I understand it, means internal, non-exported, in this case the Japanese market.
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