If you feel the comment was out of line and incorrect, you are taking it out of context. The intent behind the sentence, which you seem to have misread, is that if Apple was to choose to delay Leopard for 6 months in hopes that they might win more PC user votes later down the road, they wouldn’t be winning any new customers (ABOVE AND BEYOND that which Apple is steadily winning anyway) during that six month time period. As I stated, Apple is surely winning customers on a daily basis; that isn’t a fact worth debating. The point being made is that Apple would not position themselves to gain a higher stream of converted customers in that 6 month time frame than if they were simply to release Leopard at the scheduled time.

In regards to your opinion that the statement is stupid; I would say that if you misinterpreted the question, who’s comment is then stupid? ;)

That’s a bold statement.

And a stupid one, too. I was lured here by a link on slashdot, but I think I’ll be letting adblock handle this site from now on.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/microsoft-demos-vista-on-an-imac-231555.php

Why they didn’t choose one of their own hardware partners is beyond me. Quicktime is a platform. It is not just for playing back media (like MS solutions have been for years) Apple’s customers for iTunes are cross-platform. So Apple would take the chance of loosing a large portion of it’s customer base for the iPod & media for the reason that you state? Your argument makes absolutely no sense at all. How exactly does Apple’s apps running badly on any platform instill confidence in Apple. That is a ridiculous statement. It seeems to me MS has more to lose here if things work well. Let’s look at the fact that their licensung agreement does not allow anyone to run anything but Vista ultimate in virtualization. Here is a good article that pretty much explains why this is all a bunch of BS:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/5209A3EE-03DE-42CA-8A27-55DBF41C6F5D.html

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