The Apple Revolution. Hasta la Vista Microsoft.

JMP securities suggest that Microsoft may lose Windows Vista users to OSX.

How could an operating system, such as OSX, with such a tiny market share gain dominance without a fundamental change in computers as big as the one that replaced mini computers with desktop PCs?

There is an elephant in the room. The change has already happened and people just haven't noticed.

The elephant is the laptop. Laptops have been around for ages, but several factors, have recently conspired to make them the primary computing tool.

The reason this is fundamentally different is that a laptop is a very personal thing, its as different a computer as a PC was to a room sized Vax.

A laptop is a truly personal computer, one that connects to business data when needed, but which should naturally be yours. You may not own your office furniture or your desktop PC, but owning your laptop will be as natural as owning your briefcase while your company still owns the documents inside.

A truly personal computer does personal things like manage your photos and music. Only one company has an operating system that does this well.

A truly personal computer is an object that says something about your personality like the clothes you wear and the car you drive. Amazingly, only one company makes computers that are not butt ugly.

A truly personal computer should be easier to maintain, less prone to infection and able to link to the businessy stuff when needed. One company shines here.

The PC revolution was the Microsoft revolution. The laptop revolution may be Apple's.

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