He assembled some fine talent of his, and they haven't done half bad.
I'm an XP user. My wife has an iBook, but my desktop and notebook both run XP (albeit skinned and tweaked to look like OSX).
I like the Apple style, but I find it hard to give up open architecture.
I'm reminded of the Stephen Wright joke about how he owns the ax Washington used to cut down the cherry tree. Although he had replaced the handle...and the head...it still occupied the same space.
My current computer is just like that. I don't go into the store and buy the whole box, I replace what's broken, and it runs on parts that I've bought in each of the past eight years.
I think you would have a much harder time upgrading components in a Mac than you would in a Windows system. I also build my own machines and upgrade the parts. I couldn't imagine trying to do that with one of Jobs' machines (maybe you can and it would be just as easy, but I doubt it, I would be very uncomfortable trying to monkey around with a proprietary machine) - and there is the big MSFT/pc advantage. People feel comfortable playing around with them.
ROTFL!