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Just an over egoed salesman. Remember that dude that actually built the Apple.....let's see.....oh yes, WOZNIAK.....NOT SALESMAN - Now just a great dad with a lot of money for his kids and a lot of other kids.
Let's see -- where did his money go -- OH -- you mean that guy named Jobs ripped him off. Damn - someone should have told Jobs to be nicer to his very very best friends. I sure am glad I'm not his enemy - if that's the way he treats his very very best friends.

Anonymous speaks like a true head-in-the-sand IT drone. No vision, no understanding and no clue. iPods are in use in many hospitals to carry hi-def radiology images to avoid overloading the network. Movie studios, and especially animation houses (like Pixar) routinely push the boundaries of commercial computing and networking. Macs are flying off the shelves, especially anywhere leaders and visionaries incubate. (45% of all computers Princeton sells to students are Macs; other Universities are seeing similar sales trends.) Jobs is universally credited with the Apple turnaround taking a broken and dying company to consistent growth and profitability over the past 9 years.

Few people get it - OS X is unix for the masses. Easier than linux or Windows, more powerful than Vista and affordable. No, it's not perfect but those masses are ready for a platform change. The upfront and retraining costs for Vista are such that a platform change is viable for the average user, most of whom are comforted by the option to still run Microsoft Office natively. Add the ability to continue to run specialty Windows applications (Crossover office for X is the stealth enabler here, not BootCamp) and there's little reason to stick with Windows.

This is good news for IT. With a viable alternative to Windows readily available we will be able to select best of breed for any particular use, to say nothing of the technological stimulation real competition brings. It's unlikely the next version of Windows will be 7 years late and missing half the intended features.