Replies to post #74481 on Apple Inc (AAPL)

[Tex]

re intent to buy

If the intent to buy surveys I've read actually predict anything, Apple will pull an NT on the world with its Unix: expanding in schools and then, having taken the mindshare of the new crop of incoming IT workers, inevitably assault the enterprise.

Every time I read about Apple taking command in higher ed, I think about the NT rollout, and how it displaced Unix, which was regarded as having higher personnel overhead and requiring more expertise. Now that MSFT's NT-descendants apparently require a whole pile of certifications to set up, and the world is bristling with *nix expertise, I imagine this inverting in Apple's favor.

Or so is my hope.

Take care,
--Tex.