The Mac has all the graphic apps simply because the chip architecture is so much more suited to graphical utilities, an area where wintel PC's are still very limited. A decent G4 will do 10 GFLOPS in Photoshop, whilst a decent PC will have difficulty doing 2. Obviously, this is in part due to Adobe specially optimising PS for the Mac, but Mac hardware leaves PC's far behind for apps like this.
The business apps I'm primarily talking about are the non-graphical ones that are the supposed mainstay of your average office (namely office) and all sorts of other nik-naks (there's all manner of modelling tools that, to my knowledge, onyl exist on the PC here). Sure. Macs have the graphical apps world sewn up, but that's still a small proportion of the total business computer market.
The reason I'm such a strong advocate of Linux is that with it the same program will run just the same on a Mac as it will on Windows. You name a computer, and chances are you can buy a Linux distribution for it. It'll let you plug a Mac into a PC, and they won't grumble at all, etc etc
Unfortunately, it gives people a choice, and M$ don't want that....
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