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Apple: Next Leg Up Will Be From Enterprise Accounts

Thomas,

You're missing a point here. Companies don't buy individual units, they have contractual agreements with suppliers. Furthermore no large scale company is going to be interested in the Airbook as an option for its managers - it doesn't have the versatility or the capabilities of the favoured Lenovo or HP brands. Furthermore you have additional license costs for Windows - which you need to run Office 2007 - in particular MS Access.

Your second assertion is just as silly. OSX Leopard is a bit better than Vista but not sufficiently so to justify the expense of switching to a new platform for most businesses who, in any event, stick with XP as it's tried and tested and a very, very good OS. The fact that Apple's US market share remained flat through XP's tenure and has only increased by perhaps a couple of percentage points despite the disappointment of Vista should tell you that there is no real Corporate appetite for Apple products. This situation is even apparent if you look globally where Apple's market share remains about 2-3%.