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Slower Outlook for PCs but New Apple MacBooks Gain Traction

Mark my words, iPod sales (the iPod Touch, specifically) are going to be off the charts this holiday season, as well it should be.

Apple's touch devices are so good, they are selling like crazy even to PC die-hards. This is the brilliance of the iPod in the first place. Windows users thought they had a decent computer already, they didn't want to be told they didn't. They even knew people, posing as technologists (who had really just settled for the most common tech available for it's popularity, not it's features, etc...) who reinforced the notion they had made a good decision with WIndows.

Then along comes Apple with great devices that demonstrate how totally lacking their computer experience truly is. In effect, they have taught by example.

Microsoft is only ever about propping up it's monopoly. Nothing more than that. Just look how they embrace and extend open standards such that they will become windows only. Well, windows mobile is history, and people used to compare XP and older versions of OS X and say they were close. No one ever really seriously said XP was better, just close (and more popular). That has advantages. But now, no one is daring to even compare Vista to Leopard. That would be ridiculous.

People are cheap sometimes to save a buck. Especially in difficult times. But people don't want to make a stupid decision and buy a clunker product like a PC hobbled with Vista. It's not going to bankrupt anyone to get the Mac. It's not a luxury item at all. People are smart enough to realize that a quality product should last a long time and is worth the investment rather than saving a few bucks on a cut rate windows computer that isn't even going to work more than a couple of years (if that) before it's in need of (at the least) a complete format/restore. About 90% of the people don't want to do that sort of maintenance, and they are learning that it's free at the Apple store (mostly because it's rarely needed and many times more straightforward than the same procedures in Windows.)