I'm not a kool-aid drinker by any means, but you really should forget what you know about Apple and check out the Mac.
It's really a remarkable machine.
I never claimed the Mac was not remarkable.
To quote the Senator from Massachusetts: it was the wrong computer at the wrong time.
BTW: Apple has since abandoned the closed-shop one-computer, one-vender, one-Fuehrer model but the train left the station years ago and Apple is forced to hang out with its 3% and watch everybody else fade off into the horizon.
(ok, maybe THAT analogy went to far - I get carried away sometimes)