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I love macs, used them for years, did a degree in ergonmics which further cemented my belief in what a lot of the things that Apple strive to do. BUT - the the issue about market share and whether it's 3%, 5%, 25%, 50% is more about human nature and the joy certains groups of people derive from actually being in a minority. let's face it, life would be far more boring and corporate and all the things that mac users love to hate about micro$oft if Apple had the market share that a lot of mac users wish it would have. For a start, you can bet that Apple wouldn't give two fingers as to whether you had a one button mouse or not compared to corporate decisions about how to increase it's OS penetration from 48.9 to 50.01 percent and how it's web version of spotlight was drawing 0.3% market share from Google etc. etc. etc. Fact is, it's the low market share combined with disproportionate amount of media attention (cos believe me Apple punches well above it's weight) that Apple gets that makes us mac users feel special the position we're in. If Apple were to approach anything near the market share that Microsoft has I can bet you issues that we take such joy in such as superiority of interface design, gorgeousness of form factor etc will get drowned under the sea of all the Wall St analysts bagning on endlessly about all the things that most Mac users despise and revolt against. Oh - and I was in the Apple Store Regent St (London) a few days ago, in the queue for my copy of tiger and the woman in front of me was on her mobile saying, "Hi, Yeah I'm in that iPod Shop in Oxford Street, c u soon..." Go extrapolate wat you will from that... Oh and one more thing - I'm pissed as a fart after 1.5 bottles of wine so scuze the speeling mistakes......