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Originally Posted by ubertuber
I think this is the least possible of all scenarios. Steve and the company are very clear that the strength of their position is built on the ability to design both the hardware and the software -- their interaction. OS X is great, but much of the mojo comes from the same walled garden that people complain about.
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I didn't say they would do it, but until they do, they are going to be niche market only.
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Linux has nothing to do with the conversation. Money is made by the majority of the market, not the fringe that has the understanding and motivation to download and compile kernels. When it is more usable, Linux may well be king.
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It does only in that people who use macs generally are not the most computer literate, hell they don't have to be. If you really wanted to beat the system, something many mac users are very smug about, you run Linux, only of course its a lot more effort to get it all to work.
This may sound like I'm being condescending to mac users, and I'm not intending it that way, but that type of user does tend to be the ones mac is geared to. As a more advanced user, I don't have any virus/trojan/Vista/issues which has been the core of mac advertising for a while now.