Only if you believe that because more businessmen would clamor around a new $90K Mercedes, that's proof your 1974 Chevy Nova is the superior automobile.
Ah, the silly car analogy again. The Mac is the $200 dollar pencil that is sold to the minions as " the BMW of pencils – does everything other pencils do only cost a lot more – but it proves you are cool and stylish"
Only if you believe that because more businessmen would clamor around a new $90K Mercedes, that's proof your 1974 Chevy Nova is the superior automobile.
Sorry bud, to the business people I work with, a 90k Mercedes is no novelty.
As for laptops, they want high performance business tools that work, and specifically work with corp infrastructure.
The VC I work for, a former Mac user I might add, scrapped all of his Macs in '97 and made the shift to WINTEL. We now use all Intel boxes with WIN2K.
They have actually deducted points from startups for dragging PowerBooks in here for presentations.
Apple is a niche box serving the publishing/marketing world in business and iconoclasts in their homes. I believe in free markets and Apple has my blessing in their endevours.
But, IMO, they are no longer mainstream (if they ever were), they serve the loony left and will always be a footnote in the history of IT. Transcripts of their annual pep rallys have no place on a conservative news board, except for the purpose of ridicule and mockery.
FWIW, I was closely associated with Apple and their products from '82 till '97, when I saw the light.