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All right, this is simply some ridiculous article. I understand that this site being called "applematters" you require to sing victory every once in a while, and since in those statistics windows market share did not drop, and vista already got more market share than apple... you needed an easier target and thus you picked Linux. So, let's forget that the statistics you picked are just flawed since they only consider Linux sales. (Most if not all the Linux users I've met did not buy a PC with Linux preinstalled...) Even assuming the statistics are right, I think you still need a very tripping mind in order to come up with the "apple is killing Linux" title. - In order for something to be killing something else, the something else must be dying, yet Linux share is raising even in your flawed statistics... - In order to come to your conclussion you would have to at least prove that there's a correlation between apple raising and Linux dropping, but nope, but were raising, and Linux's raising was bigger than Apple's (just devide the present percentage between the past one and you'll see). In other words it seems you spent most of your article saying why "Apple is killing Linux on the desktop" while you spent zero research or thought to actually verifying the truth value of the "Apple is killing Linux on the desktop" statement. --

Apple is driven by someone who has some understanding of end-user needs, Linux is not.

Is the mind behind Mac OS/X the same behind my ipod nano? That mp3 player that is harder to use than my brother's Taiwanese mp3 player, that ipod nano that crashes all the time? Ok...

Apple has Microsoft Office, Linux doesn’t; Apple has Adobe Creative Suite, Linux doesn’t;

Linux has photoshop, about the other apps from adobe creative suite I am not too impresed, inkscape replaces illustrator nicely anyways, the others look totally useless for the average user. Microsoft office 2003 also runs in Linux, not that I ever needed it since I prefer OpenOffice. It is fun that apple's success is so reliant not on apple but on other software companies... I would love to test your favorite OS but I can't run it in my computer, and I have no plans to buy another one. On the other hand, Linux runs everywhere, could it be an ipod a palm, and old PC or a Mac computer... -- This article just didn't make any sense and shows very poor journalism, I request applematters to issue an apology for this.