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>>here's quite a few reasons to switch right now, the iApps, and more apps now getting fleshed out with beefed up mail, Sherlock, chat, address book, iCal. Also, the iPod with ITunes is unbelievable.<<

See these are reasons that do nothing for me and many people. I don't have any need for iApps, they don't interest me much. I don't need a mail client since I use web mail, (i am all over the place, mail on once computer is bad for me, even if I was on the same computer all day i wouldn't use a client). Sherlock doesn't interest me, I can see why people like it and it's place but it's not something I think many would care about. Address book? Thats unique? and same for iCal. I have a sony clie, it goes ever where with me, much more useful than something stuck to my computer. Things like that just on your computer like the email to just arn't useful, they have to travel with you. Be able to be used when one a friends computer and such. And the iPod isn't even related to owning a mac (if they were free with every mac then this would be differant). and you can have one with a windows computer. I hope people arn't switching just for an iPod. I'm not saying iApps arn't nice. They seam very nice for what they do and many people use them. But for many people they don't have use. Things like iOffice or iBrowser would appeal to more people. They are certainly not a reason to switch. There are alternitives in windows, MS can't put such a package together or the DoJ and everyone else would have their ass. Look at what they have with MS Office, expand that into the apps iApps does and you can get an idea of what MS could do if they could get away with it. iApps give mac users nice pre packaged simple apps. I'm sure they had apps there before made by out side groups that have now been crush by apples following them. Was it watson they ripped off?

Things that cause a switch are things that you truely don't have in Windows. iApps are not something you truely don't have in windows. You may not have "Mac OSX iApps TM" for windows but you have things that do the same or dang near. It has to be some big feature(dinner with steve jobs), or incredible hardware (quad 4ghz power4), or huge interface improvement of some app that there is nothing similar to do it (like for example mac has no real CAD programs (AFAIK), so switching to a Windows, AIX, Solaris, Irix computer would be a good idea to get CAD if it was something you wanted). As of now there is no one real thing that would cause a switch. This is why the switch commercials claim you can't do things in windows (even though you can) or that windows is hard and confusing (which its not) or it BSOD (which it hasn't since 2k) or digital cameras don't work (which they do) or using a wintel computer is lame for a pot smoking hippie (which may be true).