Out of the blue, Apple topples Micro$oft in Japan with more market share!

[DonnyEMU]

It's incredible what people call poor support here in this forum. If I go to the Apple store and need help, it's $100 just to speak to someone personally for an hour. Also it's $75 an hour to talk to the Geek Squad at Best Buy, Or FireDog at Circuit City.

Apple can claim all the the sales they want, but how many people are buying Apple hardware and running some form of Windows through BootCamp or Parallels Desktop.

Realize Apple is going after the consumer market, this doesn't talk about what's happened with Vista in the Enterprise, or even Windows 2008 server or Home Server which haven't even showed up on the radar yet, and Apple likes to talk P.R. I doubt Microsoft (a personal opinion) is even talking numbers at this time of the year.

Also, one of the interesting things on the leopard disc is bootcamp drivers for 32 bit XP and Vista for all of the Mac's Intel hardware as it's feature. That would make Apple the number one "PC compatible" if their numbers are true..

It's a little bit like comparing Apples to Oranges so to speak. Microsoft makes software, and accessories. They aren't the PC hardware maker, there are several of them. Apple sells hardware..

[DonnyEMU]

That's my exact point, so it's difficult to compare a hardware maker to someone who sells OSes..

[DonnyEMU]

The thing that's really important that Vista provides is the WPF/WCF functionality. WPF in Vista offers hardware acceleration over Windows XP...

People talk about things like Leopard's Core Graphics, but forget WPF which I program for every day and it rocks..

The sad part of all of this is I have about 5 computers one is a new core 2 duo mac mini. Let me say the hardware is flawless. After a year of Vista x64, and now Leopard I still prefer Windows Vista.

The response, feel and UI is just more professional and the OS does seem to offer more services. Leopard (with features like Time Machine) is just getting some things Windows has had for a while. As far as performance goes I like Apple hardware and it runs 32-bit Vista wonderfully. I have developed software on both platforms since the mid-1990s and honestly besides the Fan boy rhetoric I really don't see a clear advantage with either machine.

What I don't like about Apple's Ads:
Apple plays on people's intelligence with their advertising and their idea that they are smarter. Well the design of the hardware is nicer. I don't see the operating system being that either though it's coming along.

If you notice the common denominator story you'll hear about "switchers" is that they had a bad experience with a PC crashing or a virus or worm they couldn't handle for themselves. That's just a reflection on them and their usage not on the actual platform. Most people I know never has those problems.

I think Apple now makes one of the best Vista hardware boxes around, so you get my recommendation buy Apple Intel hardware to run Vista FAST. They also include all the intel drivers for vista function on the leopard disc as well..

It isn't a lark Apple put those on the install disc. They know they need it because if they won't gain marketshare. It's not just an insurance policy, Apple users are closet Windows users now too..