Tom B

Apple's Extraordinary Edge

"you just upgrade the components whether hardware or software you want to upgrade"

You can go to any store and get standard RAM for a Mac, or standard Hard Drives.

"Hey, the last time my XP crahsed after years of using it, "

XP itself doesn't crash so much, but I waste LOTS of time in XP every day waiting for application crashes to play out. I see a lots of the hourglass.

"In 10 years, Apple's world domination will be just around the corner, just like it was 10 years ago."

It's very frustrating, but progress is being made. The "Apple is doomed" crowd is quieter than it used to be. And here is the situation: OS X gets better all the time; Windows seems to never change much. Vista: Still insecure; performance still poor; UI still poor; slower than XP. The thing that keeps the undead corpse known as MSFT alive are the Enterprise dudes who make their living fixing all the Windows problems that arise every day. Guess what? Some of them are retiring. More will retire over time.

Some standards wars play out over decades. The standard for analog color TV took several decades to resolve, and this one could take longer, because 20 years ago, businesses foolishly invested heavily in DOS-- wiki the "productivity paradox"-- they spent lots of money on PC's and got very minimal returns on their investment because PC's have such high TCO.

It would be funny if it were'nt pathetic and a huge drag on our economic productivity. Consider the people who trash the iPhone because, unlike the Blackberry, it doesn't "natively" support Outlook -- an Email system totally despised by those of us that use it (like me) and decades obsolete in terms of its architecture.