A lot of teachers used to feel that Apple was the education machine. Now I don't hear that anymore. The new OS X is powerful, super stable and has more potential than any consumer OS in the world. It literally guarantees there will be a viable Mac platform in 2010. Nevertheless, Mac OS X will be, from the average investor's point of view, merely a nagging source of uncertainty.
Most investors have only media descriptions of the OS X situation on which to base their judgements.
There will be lingering fears about developer commitment, and then missed deadlines over and over this winter and spring. There will be a hundred articles penned by reviewers nitpicking details, often merely because the Mac OS X is different from what they are comfortable with. Mac Plus days were. Why, those were the days when the Apple corporation stood for something meaningful , like making computing user friendly, not like today when Apple, uh, stands for the same thing. Early on I had hoped that the world would see the potential for Mac OS X to really steal market share from Windows NT, CE and Linux because it combines the best of these operating systems while jettisoning their legacy of crap.