Does it even make sense anymore to speak of "Wintel" as a label for the antithesis of everything Macintosh, now that every Mac is an IBM-compatible PC, has an Intel processor, and has software to run Windows on it offered by Apple for free?
This is a great point. The average teenage person today knows of desktop computers like one would know of rotary dial telephones, and laptop computers are a familiar but dated domestic artifact, while a hand-held, Internet-connected cell phone device they are probably most familiar with as being "contemporary."
These young people are the current and next generation of consumers of electronic goods. Companies like Microsoft and Intel had best be busy redefining their products and services to cater to this generation.
Remember in the early 1980s, when IBM made the best, most efficient, mainframe computers in the world. But the world didn't want mainframe computers, and IBM almost went under; people wanted personal computers, on their desks at home. And Apple was there from the beginning, redefining computing.
Then the first PCs, but Apple was again redefining computing with the graphical user interface, and the Mac was born. It took several years later for the first Windows operating system to appear.
And now, computing is again being redefined, this time by hand-held and tablet-like personal devices, Internet connected; and once again Apple is in the middle of the fray.
No, I don't own an Apple product; but I appreciate the lessons one can derive from a study of recent technological history. It would serve both Microsoft and Intel well to also study, and rethink, that history that they, too, have been a part of.
~Joe
