As most of us no know there really is no such thing as a user-friendly computer. What customers are demanding is power, versatility, speed, stability, and, most importantly, the ability to add on key features as they are developed. This is where Macs have suffered. The Macintosh is a very hard OS to debug, with meaningless numerical system error messages and very little for the user to do to de-bug his system but call a repair guy. Beyond that, the MacOS has lost popularity and as Windows gets further and further ahead with nifty features like an active desktop.
Macintoshes look very shabby in comparison.
The one place Macintosh will probably keep strong the longest is graphic design. Although PCs are becoming more and more refined, Macintosh started with a graphical user interface and had a great head start over DOS machines with developing their monitors and graphic handling. Even so, Paint Shop Pro is not offered for the Macintosh, as is the case with LView Pro and many of the other low-cost graphics programs available. Photoshop is still sold for Macintosh and there are the occasional good deals on software and hardware. As the major companies see more profit in the PC market, the once-powerful Macintosh computer may become extinct.