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Originally Posted by frahse

The real question is whether Apple is also in decline. There are a lot of arguments on both sides of that question.

Like this one:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57...han-microsoft/

...famed columnist and economist Paul Krugman dwells not on this human aspect, but another: the idea that Microsoft might depend on more conservative humans than does Apple.
In a New York Times piece posted Saturday, Krugman ponders the symmetries between Apple and Microsoft.
He concludes that Cupertino might just have a more troubled future than Redmond.
His logic comes down to the idea that Microsoft's core purchaser is a conservative IT manager, while Apple's is the mere fickle human consumer.

The original NYT piece:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/201...d-apple/?_r=1&