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"MAC missed the boat when they didn't compete with PCs in the markets that contain big business and schools."
Macs used to *own* the business marketplace. They were the first inexpensive machines with high-quality, integrated word processing. They did lots of the early WYSIWYG for printer interfaces, too. They owned the whole market at a time before MSFT even had a graphical interface.
The PCs were cheap enough to kick the crap out of them in that market, pure and simple.
Apple also didn't used to be the plucky underdog, either. When they were on the top of the heap, they behaved just as badly as MSFT does now.
Lest anyone forget that the whole concept of a graphical OS was swiped from Xerox. That didn't stop Apple from suing Microsoft as if they *had* invented it.
