No company stays on top forever.
Now, Apple makes a nice slick product, but I have never been very fond of them. A blog I go to refers to them as a nice walled in garden, that has very strict rules on what you can do. That is ok for many, but I like a little bit of freedom to tinker. And to be honest most engineering software is geared to the PC.
Well, to be fair Microsoft is still "on top" of the PC OS and Office markets. LOL
I'm not sure you made your point there...
"Now, Apple makes a nice slick product, but I have never been very fond of them."
Which appears to color your view considerably.
"A blog I go to refers to them as a nice walled in garden, that has very strict rules on what you can do. That is ok for many, but I like a little bit of freedom to tinker."
You have that with the Mac - and you can run Windows software on them well to boot. It is also perfectly legal to jailbreak your iOS devices if you wish to accept Android-like security risks.
"And to be honest most engineering software is geared to the PC."
As I said, the Macs will run Windows well (VM or not) if you need to. I think you'll find much more software of all types arriving for Mac, as Mac sales are growing much faster than the PC market as a whole. The figures for February show an 18% year-over-year growth rate.
New models based on Intel's Ivy Bridge platform due within a couple of months are expected to accelerate things from there.