[Stormbringer]

Yes, but they're much happier making budget hardware, handing over the majority of their profit to Microsoft and fighting tooth and nail over bread crumbs than they would be otherwise. Gotta pursue your dream dont'cha know. It's a freedom thing. Also, even if they make a loss, they will make it back in volume. (since that appears to be their actual business strategy, whether to place sarcasm tags around the preceeding sentence is left as an exercise for the reader)

Small nitpick: roughlydrafted was _always_ a pure fanboi site with little or nothing of interest to say.

[white_devil]

He's certainly a fanboi, but he's been very insightful too.

[Stormbringer]

he suffers from Gruber-syndrome.

Which is to say, that he will argue till the cows come home that market share is udderly (sic) irrelevant...

...right up until Apple gets a market share lead in something, when he will whip out the megaphone and start screaming about how "we" are winning now.

He's almost as bad as the people who - in complete disregard of the facts, keep slamming Apple no matter what they do.