Um, until OS X, the main story was “Apple is doomed, MS will crush them” in the press.
So... now that even the notoriously clueless press is forced to admit that this isn’t even remotely the truth.
Also, many of those web traffic stats rely on browser plugins that DO NOT INFECT a Mac or a properly locked down PC and are therefore suspicious.
That was only for a few years, basically the gap years where they had no Steve and no real direction for the company. And with good reason, Apple looked pretty seriously hosed for a while there, heck they even needed money from MS. But the years pre-Win95 and the years since OSX it’s been all about how Macs are gonna win (then it was OS2 for a bit, then Linux, then the press seemed to finally give up on predicting MS’s imminent demise, then OSX came out), and yet there’s really no solid indication of Macs really being in a position to win. Heck just look at this thread, most of the discussion is about how well Macs can run Windows, how does MS lose if most Mac machines install Windows even if it is just in VMs?
“Also, many of those web traffic stats rely on browser plugins that DO NOT INFECT a Mac or a properly locked down PC and are therefore suspicious.”
Plus I worked at one of these “research” companies and it is all bullshit. They all have agenda’s paid for by the vendors and the “stats” are built on “models”.
There are a lot of parallels to the Glowbull warming hoax. Agenda’s, bad science, marketing and profits.