said by digitalfutur:A few returns do not a trend make, especially when the price premium for Apple is 30-50% more than Windows. It's a lot of extra money to pay for being unable or unwilling to spend 15 minutes learning a few mouse clicks or keyboard shortcuts on Windows 8.
Given Apple's 7% global market share for desktops, most people aren't going to flock to OS X and its variants.
1st off the price "premium" for a Mac is not 30-50%. The issue is Apple doesn't compete in the bargain basement space. And that's a good thing as the sub $700 machines are generally crap. And if you have not noticed, Apple's market share of the PC pie is slowly climbing, so they are doing something right. In fact it has been climbing for years now.
2nd, it's more than a couple mouse clicks. Imagine if you got into your car this morning and your steering wheel was in the passenger side, your key went in the glove box, the radio was in the console, etc. That's what MS has done with Windows 8. It's not a simple change, like from Office 2007 to 2010 but a radical and poor change. Things need to make sense and few things in Windows 8 make sense. Change for change's sake is not progress.
3rd, the great thing is with iOS, Android, and OS X people now feel they have a good alternative to Microsoft and Windows. And that is bad for MS as typically once people have an alternative to MS they don't buy MS any more.