I'd like to thank you for your reply. That's a good point, it seems like nearly every company has some sort of iApp for iPad/iPhone/iOS out - a good portion of

I'd like to thank you for your reply. That's a good point, it seems like nearly every company has some sort of iApp for iPad/iPhone/iOS out - a good portion of the increase could be development machines to support this. I also want to note that you are the only person among many responses I see that had a thoughtful response to explain what the increase in sales might be due to. It was disappointing to see so many other posts talking about why they believe OS X sucks. That may be true or not, but doesn't help with understanding what is the cause behind that statistics in the cited article.