If Apple and the Mac are losing steam, could someone please answer why they were one of the only tech companies in the world not to post a devastatingly disappointing quarter?

The majority of comments here are just infantile. Windows users have benefited for years from cross-pollination of ideas taken from Apple and vice-versa. The fact that the hardware now differs very little is immaterial. If "nubs" and "fanboiz" want to waste their money on a "teletubbies GUI" who gives a monkeys? Windows users can cite reports of better speed and cheaper custom builds and ubiquity and Mac users can harp on about better speed, reliable builds and security through obscurity.

Reviews will always be skewed, results rely on interpretation and opinions will always be the author's own.

I've used Windows computers since the day 3.1 came out and PCs way back into the early DOS days. Do I find them delightful and a joy to use today? Compared with what they were like, sure. In comparison to my recent experiences of OSX? Surely not!

Competition makes these massive companies look over their shoulder. Linux isn't threatening Microsoft's foothold and many would argue that OSX isn't either. But you can guarantee that the presence of this sort of competition in the marketplace makes your chosen platform better than it would otherwise be.

Anybody claiming that one is better than the other for whatever reason, is just making noise. Enjoy what years of competition have given you today.

So sorry dweebs, your MAC fanzine is losing steam and will soon die when the world uncerstands that MAC's just cannot keep up with PC's anymore. And before you say squat, I did have a MAC PC and used it for about a year and gave it away and bought a PC and have never looked back as I have found the PC programs to be far superior to the MAC programs

If Macs were really this good, EVERYONE would be using a mac by now.

the funny thing about Mac users, it's that from ALL the Mac people I've met or know(n), only a handful are honest objective people; the others are pompous elitist freaks who would kill just because you don't think the same as they do. ie: you don't like Mac.

OSX is good, just that most Mac users (and the Apple company marketing tactics) are just moronic Narcissistic freaks that give a very bad image to the remaining good people who like Macs and aren't trolls. Some of you Mac users need to stop worshiping Jobs and give more credit to somebody who also deserves it; Steve Wozniak.

AND stop worshiping a company that could be a LOT worse than Microsoft. If Apple was a good company, it wouldn't silently downgrade the quality of the hardware they sell to higher their profit margin. Or even sell Imacs with crappy hardware in it at a high price.

… and, just for the record, I'm really not a Mac hater, neither I'm a PC lover.

"It is not a virus, it's a Trojan.
Meaning you have to excecute an Aplication, and then provide it with Admin user ans password in order to allow access…

So, as it needs human permission to work, it is not a virus."

Seeing as you know Jack about the operating systems used by 99% of businesses, enjoy your job at MAC-Donalds!

"Can I super-price you?"

Try addressing the salient points, you clueless butt-nugget. I said they "used to be good for DTP." – NOT that they still are.

They're now superseded by powerful, productivity-driven PC software architecture & my point STILL STANDS: Macs are

"[...] simply totally redundant (& overpriced) machines for llama Jobs fanboiz – most of whom don't even know they're simply running *NIX on a teletubbies GUI…"

and if you are a mac hater, i bet you've never tried a mac before (like really tried? like using it for almost everything?) so stop being whiney and stfu!

oh yeah. http://www.securemac.com/ <– never been easier to remove a trojan.

on your windows. i wonder how d hell you could remove a stupid virus. Reformat? well boo hoo for you.