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Sheesh. How many times will this analysis be proposed. Anyone with the slightest interest in following Apple knows that Apple will never do this for the simple

Sheesh. How many times will this analysis be proposed. Anyone with the slightest interest in following Apple knows that Apple will never do this for the simple reason that they don't care a crap about the low end market. The Apple experience is only possible when Apple controls the hardware and software and can provide the strongest linkage between them.

excuse-me 14y ago
It doesn't care a crap about the low-end consumer market. But what about offices? Macs are currently limited to 'creative' industries - where people use MacBooks to browse the web from their desk, but often have to use windows for office work and the servers are windows. Mac might be interested in snatching Windows from the corporate desktop. As the corporate desktop moves to the web and mobile devices it might be in Apple's interest to have them on Mac rather than people having to use Win8 tablets because that's all that works with the Windows corporate stuff. A deal with a single HW maker to have a single Mac corporate desktop (possibly thin client iOS) only for bulk corporate customers isn't going to dilute their boutique image too much