Reply #20: With cloud computing, platform will mean little to the user.

[alfredo]

A very large segment of the world population know the way of mobile devices. Why lug around a keyboard and mouse when you can do it all with fingertips. Laptops are heavy and expensive, why carry one when you can whip out your mobile phone/iPad and stay in touch that way?

Apple makes servers for small shops and small render farms. They are not competing with the mega monoliths in the server market. They are more into content delivery and creation.

The market is changing, and what OS is being used at the receptionist's desk will mean nothing.