We have better stuff...

I wouldnt go as far as saying MS causes more problems than it solves, but the Wal-Mart analogy may be right. Wal-Mart is so big, you'll see a lot of dumb people buying stuff there. Same with MS. Their OS market share is so big, a lot of dumb people will have the OS, and will probably mess up their computers in less than a year.

The genius thing is, Apple invested in marketing things that didnt have a huge market share belonging to another. mp3 players were still kinda niche when the iPod came out. When the iPhone came out, smartphones were marketed for corporate use. Some random celebrities used Blackberry phones, but still, it was too expensive and not marketed to the regular Joe. Nobody was interested in tablets, until they marketed theirs as a cool internet device.

In the end, it really didnt matter that Apple had better stuff. They regained their glory with products that weren't part of MS main market, those being the OS and the Office Suite.

To expand on that, the key to Apple's "better stuff" is that Apple controls the entire platform AND the software/applications that run on it. Much easier to have everything 'just work" when you exercise complete control over the total hardware and software configuration.

In the PC realm, you can easily have the chipset made by one supplier, the BIOS by another, and the motherboard by yet another. Packaged into a computer by another company using peripherals made by half a dozen other firms. Then you install Microsoft's OS, controlling the operation of user applications written by other software vendors. With a landscape like that, it's a wonder that PCs work at all!

It's all a tradeoff. The Apple model makes for a much cleaner and more consistent user experience, at the cost of the freedom to configure the system easily to meet your specific needs. The PC model gives you much more freedom to make the system do EXACTLY what you need/want it to do, at the cost of added complexity and occasional annoyances making various parts of the system get along with each other.

Personally, I like Apple's method for something like a cellphone. My iPhone "just works" without lockups and errors, unlike most of the Android phones I have tried. But I would NEVER cede that much control over my desktop or laptop computer to a single vendor.

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Just do a search for "Apple recalls", just focusing on the apple.com domain its over 220k hits, most of them are ofc. from their forums but ignoring those its still a long list.

Battery issues (going bad, bulging), Chipset faults, Overheating etc...

problem with macs are because of the closed source not enough software. and the software titles that there is is way overpriced compared to pc equivalent. same goes for macs. yeah it doesn't crash but less selection and more expense. furthermore it's much easier and cheaper to upgrade a pc than a mac.
all that combined - for the tech savvy and those that need specific software there is really no choice but pc (and pc doesn't mean msft if you didn't know that already)

The biggest irony of all is now the Apple fans are the drooling corporate drones sitting down watching big brother on the screen chanting "yes,yes", the sad thing is they still think they are hip, cool and unique. I have a pc I built to my specs that is unlike anyone's and reflects my individuality.It is more rugged, flexible and less costly than any Apple computer and it runs circles around them. And it wasn't assembled using 12 year olds.

"MACS don't get viruses".
True, the point of writing a virus is for it to propagate. Nobody wants to take the time to code for an OS nobody uses. At the last gathering the Apple OS was cracked in 2 hours while the Win7 machine wasn't cracked until day 2. Of course there will be more problems with a pc and the Microsoft operating system, that is because they aren't overpriced fashion accessories and are readily available to all income levels which results in far more computer illiterate people having access to them.

As far as the other markets go, there are better products for cheaper than the iPhone. I had an iPhone, I'll take my Droid any day.

It's amazing how prophetic this film was and it was made almost 14 years ago, or forever in computer years.

This was just one of those prophetic things.

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Oh, the iPhone was a revolution. True, it was seriously lacking in features, compared to Symbian for example. You could even say it was not really a smartphone at first. But its cool interface, its sleek design, were beyond anything else at the time. This brought mainstream attention to smartphones, that's the true revolution.

And they were quick to make it more advanced. I recall being very impressed when they showed it running Super Monkey Ball on a keynote. That was a pretty high-end 3D arcade, back when people were still used to playing simple 2D Java games on the awful tiny blurry screens of their Nokia featurephones.