people who generally have negative views over apple usually havn't had hands on experiance with there products.
Yeah ok i agree they are overpriced some of there stuff, but you get what you pay for.......apple dont do budget products and the ones they do are usually in the ipod range such as the ipod Nano.
There line of desktops and laptops all look great, perform great and dont go out of date quickly, there desktops and laptop range works because they design the hardware and all of the operating system themselves.
Im currently using there macbook pro, yeah ok it cost me £1600 new for a great spec, , but its now about 2 years ok and still performing as good as the day i got it.
There business model makes sense too, which is why the app store and itunes store became so popular.
buy the ipod/iphone etc , easily get all your apps and music off the ipod store, very easily for a reasonable price........if you do great we make money out of it sorta thing and its easy to do, if you dont you still bought our hardware.......