"1) Schools and Enterprise: who says that Apple ever LEFT the schools?!?!? As for the Enterprise, Apple has to break the legacy cycle, but that isn't easy - after all, it's Microsoft's whole business model: provide endless backward compatibility so that that '90s DOS app will still run, the client business never has to shell out money to get an upgrade or pay for custom development of a modern app - but they still fork over the cash to Microsoft for the latest Windows! But easing this legacy concern IS exactly what Apple has been doing over the last 5 or more years. Do you really think the switch to Intel was ONLY about how Motorola and IBM shafted Apple on the PowerPC? Do you think BootCamp is just a "convenience" for the average user? Do you think Mac OS X supports Windows file and print sharing, Active Directory services, Exchange client, etc. just for the fun of it?!?! And with the iPhone/iTouch SDK out, Enterprise mobile use will be on the rise, too.
2) No "Apple Server Edition"?!?!? Ugh. This almost doesn't deign a response. It's called Xserve, and it tears Windows servers a new one. Also been around for more than 5 years. And you can buy an unlimited client license without mortgaging the farm. Go to Apple.com or Google it - educate yourself.
3) Build vs Buy: this is really sad. You build it, of course it's cheaper! It's called LABOR. It's called Intellectual Property. How many patents have you filed for lately? Of course you can build a statue of Venus from Legos - but it won't look as beautiful as the original. Probably not as durable, either. It's called DESIGN, and it costs money. If you don't care that something is attractive and "just works" without applying your own time (How much is your time worth? I guess not much...), then by all means, be my guest and build your PC from components.
4) PCs and vertical integration: news flash - not ALL PC components are 3rd Party. From the OEM perspective, HP, Dell, etc. will sell you their displays, printers, keyboards, mice, etc. with their computers - that's not 3rd Party. From the OS perspective, you can buy many Microsoft peripherals (keyboards, mice, webcams, etc.) supposedly designed to work with their Windows OS. That's not 3rd Party, either. As for the internals, again, today PCs and Macs have the same "guts", so Apple doesn't have any advantage over PC makers when it comes to hardware integration. Yes, they have some advantage in hardware and OS integration because they do control both, but they should be maligned for using this advantage to give users a better, less costly to maintain computing experience? I think not.
5) One door closes - another door opens: the Macintosh platform is not THAT closed. Sure, Apple has Intellectual Property that they wish to protect and continue to profit from - that's why we have a capitalist economic system! But as said before, the hardware components are industry-standard, the software supports industry standards, a portion of the code base is open source, and the system is UNIX-based, which lets a user do pretty much whatever one wants. I think I know who has the closed mind, and it's not Steve Jobs."
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