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Very good NYTimes article about Apple, and how they may have missed the opportunity to gain significant market share. Highly recommended. I particularly like one of the ending paragraphs:

"However, the opportunity for Apple that has been opened by Vista’s introduction is temporary. Mr. Kay, of Endpoint, described a Microsoft operating system and its thousands of certified supporting hardware vendors and the two million device drivers as forming an enormous flywheel."

“It takes a lot of energy to spin it up,” he said, “but once it gets going, it’s virtually unstoppable.”