I look as Win 8 as the true potential PC killer.
and not in a good way.
I disagree, doc. If nothing else, it will push users to Linux. However, keep in mind, there are still an enormous number of users who are clinging to XP and it’s EOL as far as MS is concerned. It’ll be 10-15 years before Win7 is scrapped, IMO. I’m already using Linux for close to half of my day. I’m FReeping on Linux. The only thing I need Windows to do is play my video games.
And Apple isn’t going to continue to grow at the rates they have previously. People are seeing, as shown in the article, that Apple is just a different brand and just as ugly under the hood. Jobs was a marketing genius, not a product genius. Apple’s hardware is the same as most PC hardware and runs a form of UX OS. Linux is free and runs on the PCs I already have. No need to spend $2K+ for a new platform.