[discostu]

You can continue using red herrings until your keyboard melts down for all I care, the fact that you need to so completely distort reality to pretend to make a point just make mine for me. Macs aren't luxury computers that should have a rarified market space. They're regular old desktop computers, comparible to any random sedan, and their marketshare is miniscule because the company has always done a horrible job of marketing them. PC vs Mac isn't Ford vs Porsche, it's Ford vs Honda, and if Honda had only 1/10 the marketshare Ford had everyone on the board would be out on the streets.

[Glenn]

Macs aren't luxury computers that should have a rarified market space.

It is clear you don't understand the product or its use. It's a niche product with a devout following that produces a slim but effective profit for Apple and its shareholders. The company is a going concern with a profit motive -- just like its competitors.

What sort of economic basis do you have for marginalizing a successful product like this one?

[VillageDamien]

They're regular old desktop computers, comparible to any random sedan, and their marketshare is miniscule because the company has always done a horrible job of marketing them. PC vs Mac isn't Ford vs Porsche, it's Ford vs Honda, and if Honda had only 1/10 the marketshare Ford had everyone on the board would be out on the streets.

No. It's more like Yugo vs. Honda. The Pinto vs. the Taurus.

Cheap, crappy machine that gets you there if you pray enough vs. Barely more expensive (and sometimes cheaper) machine that gets you there reliably, without worry, and comfortably.