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I think they are on a roll and nothing can stop them.
Sorry to disagree but no. I think a large chunk of the surge is that they will now run Microsoft making them a viable machine for business. But their much higher price (over dbl) for a laptop for a typical corp. machine takes them out of the running.
You wouldn't really want OS X to overtake Windows anyway, because then who would we make fun of? ;P
too many business run microsoft for Apple to be able to pass it. We (a retail store) run a microsoft machine just for a POS program, and an Apple machine would be way too expensive for that
Yeah and companies don't like to have to revamp the whole IT department. I just wish they had something like Microsoft flight simulator for Mac that would be cool.
What's that? You want a flight sim for OS X? Look no further than X-Plane. Widely considered to be the BEST one out there for any platform.
I think apple will be taking a sizeable chunk of the consumer market, and make inroad in to the business portable market - and good on them, they are profitable areas.
With those sort of markets bringing in plenty of dollars, Apple have no incentive to build low margin corporate desktops to take on Microsoft in the enterprise.
The success of Apple will also force third parties to support the Mac even more (SatNav devices!) - since 20% of home users (in the US) are buying macs, and that's a market segment too big to keep ignoring.
I hope it will do Microsoft some good, they are at last beginning to learn that failing to produce products people want is a bad strategy.
Apple wont take any market share from the Corporate world.
Way to many people to re-train, the systems cost to much, it will take years for large corporations to fully integrate MACS, not many company "specific" programs will run on MAC OS as they are all Windows based, except for web based apps.
The bean counters will say no to mac, because in the end it cost more for a mac than a PC, and that affects the bottom line which affects the share holders and when the share holders are not happy people lose their jobs.
I also believe Steve Jobs said himself he is not interested in perusing selling MACs to corporate America, because Apple is not geared towards that volume of support.