No, John, what I showed was a little facetiousness coating over an objective truth. With over 25 years involvement in the computing industry I'm anything but naive on the subject.

All kidding aside, the point is that Apple's mind share tends to be disproportionate to its market share, as many posters have noted here numerous times. This is not necessarily a bad thing. But if anyone's being naive, it's those who constantly trumpet Apple as superior in general to its competitors based on details that ignore the bigger picture. The argument is ultimately inane, and reminds me of the VHS/Beta tape war. Beta (just like Apple) was the technically superior format, but VHS (just like Microsoft Windows-based products) wound up with the larger market. Apple may indeed get user software better than most, but Microsoft has more eyeballs. That's not said in admiration of their products-- it's just recognizing reality.

It's nice for people to ardently leap to the defense of a company's products () but that passion should certainly be tempered with a 10,000 foot view IMO. But at least you got some Thanks for mistakenly calling me naive.

It looks like you need to re-read what I posted. You got it wrong-- *I* was responding to a generalization.

Context is everything.