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Old 08-02-2006, 01:47 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
Just because Stettler has one Chinese Restaurant, doesn't mean it's any good.
And it's equally possible that the one Chinese food restaurant in Stettler has better Chinese food than the dozens of restaurants in Calgary. I've never eaten Chinese food in Stettler, though.

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Is it true that some app "exists" for applications on OSX? Yes. Does it mean it's good? No. For example, take our favorite Canadian pastime - taxes. CCRA lists 9 different software packages for completing your T1, including the perennial favorite - QuickTax. Mac? One. TaxTron. I'd bet it's not as good as Quicktax either. The Web tax solutions are out there, but they don't have the same level of functionality as the installed clients do.
So why is it an advantage for there to be nine different software packages? Granted, there is some competition, but not everything is quality. There are so many PC users that a lot of developers make crappy imitation software products, knowing that just a sliver of the market is enough to make their product viable. If you use QuickTax, why is it a benefit to you that there are eight other PC tax solutions that you don't use? There are probably several hundred media players available for the PC. Of the fifteen or so I've tried on occasion, about twelve of them are crap, and the three or so decent ones were all redundent to one another.
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