for your logic to make any sense, you would have to define what in your world constitutes winning.

A Mac is a Porsche, not a Ford. Most people drive mundane boring cars like Fords. If you think Apple or Porsche has more fans than Ford, you would be wrong.

…and since you’re happy to pull numbers out of your ass, how about finding this one in there: total annual $ spent on Windows software versus Apple software. Who gives a damn about a “fan” who doesn’t actually pay the cost of admission to the game?

Do you honestly think that more than 1% of Windows users, in their cubical, at work, are Windows fans?

Do you honestly think that people, who can only afford a used PC or a new $300 net book, are Windows fans?

I’ll give you 5% who are geeks and/or IT workers and 10% who are gamers and/or Microsoft employees. That’s 16% of the Windows users who are fans.

Greater than 85% of Mac users are fans.

You lose.

Don’t say the mouse because the pad and trackball are in use and a finger on an iPad is quite effective.

Don’t say physical keyboard because dictation and/or virtual keyboards have that covered.

Don’t say multitasking because that is universal.

Don’t say a file system because Macs don’t need one to operate smoothly.

An iPad with the right Apps can do a hell of a lot more than a netbook and a cash register and both of those PCs are counted.

The real reason iPads are not counted as PCs is because MS Windows would look vulnerable if it’s sales dropped below 80%. The flood gates would open and Gartner and IDC would lose a big chunk of MS cash.

- doesn’t matter if Windows 8 fixes anything or not. Windows fans, which actually outnumber Mac fans by far, will buy it.

- does a backorder of Retina Macbooks represent huge demand or supply constraint? Most likely the latter, though we all hope the former.

- iMac and iPhone release dates can only be speculated. They can’t come a moment too soon.

- iPad mini = fail. All 7″ touchscreen devices have failed.

- iPad 4? aren’t you skipping 3? And again, see point #1. Lot of folks don’t know quality when it hits them over the head — MS Surface will indeed sell a lot of units simply because it is not “locked to the Apple ecosystem” or whatever hogwash they are selling.

Hey, i’m a proponent of Apple, but you guys need to take off the rose colored lenses once in a while.

And Retina MacBooks are still on 3 – 4 week backorder.

New iMacs are coming and iPhone 5 too.

The iPad mini will show up just in time to kick Windows 8 RT tablets off the playground and take their lunch money.

And the iPad 4 will show up just in time to kick Windows 8 RT tablets off the playground and take their lunch money.

If Apple doesn’t reveal some new hardware before Christmas, then it won’t be quite as merry this year in Cupertino. The Retina Macbook might be nice and all, but without significant software titles to drive the higher-resolution display, Apple’s newest gadget will have a rather slow deployment rate. And the rest of Apple’s Mac and iPod lineups remain long overdue for a refresh.

But they’re all right there in the one big chart. As should iPads and other tablet computers.

That fact alone may make it the dumbest thing Microsoft has ever done.

Apple are in a far better position even if you consider computers alone. When you add in the success with the tablet and phone market it is just mind boggling.

We would see its an iPad market not a tablet market.

Just a though.

“We shall leave no stone unturned in our battle against Apple!!!

Signed,
The right nut