Where do they say that? It may be true but I don't recall ever hearing them say that. When I worked at Silicon Graphics in the 1980s we had hundreds of Macs that ran everything and we were a big deal back then.
I just love that so many Windows user make fun of Mac, and yet they are the ones who have never given Mac or Linux a try. At least most Mac users have tried Windows and can give an honest opinion. Almost everybody who gave MacOS just loves it, cause it simply works! I my self have a MacBook for over 2 years now, and there's no way I would go back to Windows. I will install Windows 7 on my Mac though, since I heard good things about it, but until I haven't tried it, I won't say it's crap. So stop bashing each other and simply try what you haven't tried yet.
Worked on Macs for the last 13 years. Their core market was the graphics / DTP / prepress arena. Every Repro house in Oz used Macs. Now their Focus is the home and the current issues OSX has with the Adobe suite is unforgivable. Performance on the CS suite is Dire in comparison to a PC environment these days. Adobe blame Apple, Apple blame Adobe - I don't care I just want it to work. For home use OSX is fine. The history of Webkit explains how Apple does Open source business these days - Interesting reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit
I don't think Microsoft is losing anything. They make fantastic operating systems and I don't have a reason to switch to Mac so why should I?
The success of any OS depends on what you can run on it. And it is safe to say, that most (desktop application) developers still concentrate on Windows based OS. Even open source is mostly Windows-based.
In the business area, they do very well in the graphics area, but that does not mean their core business is not home users. I'm not saying they don't get most of their sales from there but just because one industry uses it a lot does not mean that's their main business. This is what doesn't make sense either. "Now their focus"? Are you saying, in the past, Apple was focused on business users and not home users? Is this an inside secret you don't want others to know about? You've been asked what this is. Apple does not write Adobe software so it sounds like Adobe is the problem, not Macs. If you're going to go all off topic on this, I can easily start into over $2 billion in fines by the US and EU on Microsoft plus court supervised documentation and supervision of the company and the near break up of them by the Justice Department.
Hmm. I'd have t think about that. Last I looked, FreeBSD alone has 30,000 open source applications built into the packaging system alone. That doesn't count the apps outside the system. I'm sure Linux has more. And I'm not talking about stupid little utilities you see on softpedia. Virtually everything we use on BSD/Linux is open source. How many open source packages do you run on Windows? Two? Three? On FreeBSD I have something over 200.
opensource have shaken both commercialize mac and windows for the software that linux have that developers from windows can't do. you'll be swimming to softwarezz when you visit sourceforge.
Not anytime soon but Mac is getting up there, too bad Mac is terrible to use for awesome people like me, it's more for artistic type.
A questionable statement. Linux is based on Unix. MacOSX is Unix. Linux might be more flexible and have more programs that can be installed, modified and configured, I don't know. Macs have Apple working on a smaller set of applications geared just for it.
I don't think so, Microsoft is much more better than Mac/Apple. Personaly I think that the only think that Mac has better, is the design.
Yay! I'm an artistic type and didn't even know it! All those years focused on maths and business were a waste - where were you when I needed you?
I run windows/ubuntu (linux) on my machine and have a mac around, I can't stand the mac - it's best for newbs. Unbuntu is probably the best IMO
Microsoft can not loose this battle, since it has more user than Apple. And it is easier to use that Mac.