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Homie_V, it could be as simple as the market taking a long time to shift. For a time, Macs were innefective and poorly manufactured. After Windows came out, and buisnesses started investing in buying them (because Windows supporting computers were cheaper than Macs, thus beginning the price bridge), and Mac suddenly couldn't keep up. They struggled for about 7 or 8 years. Then Steve Jobs returned as CEO and the iMac came out. The idea was that Mac was too late to try and compete in the professional market, so they decided to try and tackle the personal home/creative professional market. In those markets they currently have a 10% and 50% market share respectively (thanks to the iMac, Powerbook, iBook, and espically the iPod). The Mac servers that came out are growing in popularity, but they will need something totally new and innovative that makes them better, and cheaper than PC servers to compete directly with companies like Dell. I predict that Macs will take a long tim (if ever) to come back to the marketshare they enjoyed in the late 80s.
If the current trend continues (stock rising, popularity slowly growing, prices of hardware slowly dropping, marketshare slowly growing), we might see Mac get up to a 10% marketshare overall in about 25-30 years.
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