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Here's the best argument against that pessimistic view: people at Apple, Steve Jobs very much included, use Macs. They obviously love their macs, and would be v

• CamperBob 17y ago
  Steve Jobs does not want to use Windows, so he'll continue making computers that he wants to use. Jobs would sell his own liver if that's what it took to own the market he's playing in. (Actually, that might explain a few things...) He cannot, and will never, own the PC market with the Mac. Vista was his last chance, I think. OTOH, the portable music player market is a foregone conclusion at this point, and he can, and may, dominate the smartphone market as well, through the incompetence of his adversaries if nothing else. Most great platform success stories -- certainly Microsoft's -- have come about in exactly that way. MS didn't win their Windows and Office monopolies because their products were awesome, they won because everybody else was a goddamned idiot. It's way too late to defeat Windows. Jobs knows that, and the prospect of continuing the battle must bore him by now.