"anyone that finds ways around it will have the proverbial better mousetrap"
Considering that Apple's current business model is more dependent on DRM than Microsoft's, seemed like a reasonable question.
Well, let me clarify then....anyone who finds a reliable method of cutting DRM out of the mix on current MS or Apple systems, will have the world beating a path to his door, precisely because neither MS or Apple is going anywhere any time soon. As for existing OS's that don't have DRM schemes built in, there are already multitudes of Linux distros available. While I think you are going to see a steady rise of Linux adoption over the coming years, I don't think it's going to be huge, and DRM gutting methods on the "Big Two" will be very much in demand.