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When you don't have much market share to begin with, all there is to do is gain.

It is like when MSNBC was bragging that they went up 44% or whatever it was, when they get five extra viewers, their market gain percentage soars.

But don't sweat it, Steve Jobs has never met a gain in market share he couldn't defeat. If he wanted Macs to be popular outside a small clique of self-proclaimed super geniuses, that could have happened long ago.

And think about the Mac die hard himself, once everyone is a Mac user, how is he going to stroke his little ego and feel part of something special? Mac popularity will cause a schism in the user community and little start-ups will pop up and there will be fifty little Mac micro-brews each claiming to adhere to the One True Faith. You got to figure that it already started when Mac betrayed the One True Faith by going Intel. That sort of thing doesn't go unoticed.

The Mac has become the new Apple IIe.

But don't sweat it, Steve Jobs has never met a gain in market share he couldn't defeat.

Did Steve Jobs kick your dog? Walk through your sandcastle? Steal your candy? Tell your little friends you wet the bed?

And think about the Mac die hard himself, once everyone is a Mac user, how is he going to stroke his little ego and feel part of something special?

Are you proud of yourself?Obviously, you have no valid arguments. It is quite apparent that your ignorance is getting the best of you when you cannot muster any facts to your defense and you resort to attacking and insulting people you don't even know. Argumentum Ad Hominem, the last craven refuge of those destitute of factual information.
Mac users have "little egos?" That's a good one. Did you come up with that all by yourself?
I suspect your ego must be very small, smaller even thus us poor misled Mac users, because you seem feel the need to inflate it by spewing insults.
What have Mac users done to you to deserve such opprobrium and calumny?

You got to figure that it already started when Mac betrayed the One True Faith by going Intel.

What "One True Faith" is that, Duke?
Were you baptised into the Fundamental Church of the 6502? Or perhaps the cult of the M68000, or maybe the heresies of the 68020, or the schismatic followers of the 68030? Perhaps you were referring to the cultic fanaticism of the Holy Order of the G Series PowerPCs? Which one of these true religions did you find lacking?
Why should you think it "Betrayal" that Apple elected to embrace the worship of the Almighty Intel®, at who's silicon teat you seem to have been sucking for years, aspiring to be the High Priest of the Corporeal Core?
I would think you would rejoice that the lost sheep have seen the light and returned to the fold. . . Or, have you fallen from grace and now writhe in satanic ecstasy at the cloven hooves of AMD???
Come, take a bite of the Apple of knowledge...

The Mac has become the new Apple IIe.

Ah, there it is... you have your panties in a wad 23 years after your pet computer was left in the dustbin of history by better technology. Sad. Sad. Sad.

The Mac has become the new Apple IIe.

No, but Windows Vista has become the next Microsoft "Bob". Vista is low-quality crap. Most everyone at Microsoft (except Bill Gates) knows it - but they don't care.

The Windows franchise is eroding, and competitors like Apple and Linux are gaining. Vista is years behind Mac OS X 10.4 in quality and innovation - and Apple has another major OS release coming soon that will embarrass Microsoft again.

Paul Kedrosky got it exactly right in his article a couple of days ago (Wall Street Journal - "Hasta la Vista") - Vista is too little, too late.

Now Microsoft is talking about their next big version of Windows scheduled for release in 2009 - or 2011 or 2012, who knows when they'll actually ship the thing? Maybe they'll finally get some of the stuff they originally promised would be in Vista years ago, like WinFS and NGSCB. Or maybe they'll just recommend that Windows users migrate to XBox.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is shifting their focus away from operating systems - to competing against Google on advertising and search engines. That's what the MS engineers are focused on now.

Through incompetence and mismanagement, Microsoft is headed toward a spectacular train wreck in the years to come. It will be sad to watch. Fortunately, Apple and Linux have a bright future and will be a viable alternative to the once-great Windows empire.