Customers may talk about making these kinds of moves due to brand halos or favorable perception, but there’s no indication that PC consumers are going to leap for Apple en masse.If you already setup your PC, you probably already created an account. The idea that such a huge chunk of the PC market could or would simply up and move to Apple, or that Apple could even absorb the influx of customers within such a short period of time, are both highly dubious assertions. I’m not implying wrongdoing on Verto’s part, but I don’t believe their survey results. If I was only in the PC market every few years, I’d undoubtedly at least check out Apple’s product lines when making my decision. Even Apple’s failed products have often been trendsetters in retrospect the Apple Newton was an early forerunner of PDAs, while the G4 Cube was unquestionably a small-form-factor system. The company holds high-profile press events and is often treated as a bellwether for the entire PC industry. Apple has at least doubled its market share since switching to x86 chips, thanks in no small part to its ability to run Windows. The bottom line is this: There have always been people who switched between Mac and PCs, either on a semi-regular basis or as a one-time deal.

Consideration isn’t surprising, switching would be Sure, whichever PC manufacturing company handles Dell or HP orders would actively want to start building machines for Apple, but that doesn’t mean they’ve got the chassis and other equipment they would need to do so. That’s even more true when, like Apple, you tend to define your style with things like unibody aluminum chassis. But contract manufacturing takes time, as does creating appropriate supply lines. If even 15 percent of the existing PC market suddenly switched its buying to Mac, Apple’s total market share would more than double.

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