  Apple now owns 10.6 percent of the U.S. PC market    Acer and
Toshiba took fourth place and fifth place respectively.
Comments     Threshold   Life sure is perplexing sometimes By
Tony Swash on 10/14/2010 3:21:57 AM , Rating: 0 Dang - life sure
is perplexing sometimes.  Here we have a company that has gone
from near death to being the most highly valued tech company on
the planet in a decade and half. A company that is the only
company that has successfully fielded an alternative desktop OS
against the Windows monopoly and not only survived but prospered
and grown its sales. A company that has the most rapidly growing
and successful retail operation on the planet. A company that
has broken into three new market sectors each filled with
established competitors (music players, phones and tablets) and
utterly disrupted them with stunningly successful new products.
A company that went from nowhere to become the biggest music
retailer in less than a decade. A company that created the most
significant innov