Should have included as well the forced replacement of Mac devices because 
users did not realise that they should opt out of updates which so adversely 
affected the performance of the device that purchase of a new model was 
necessary. For example, effect of ios8 on iPhone 4S.

Michael Hawkins


> On 20 Nov 2014, at 9:34 am, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Walt Mossberg on the Return of the Mac
> 
> Many were shocked at the growth in Mac sales in Apple’s fourth fiscal quarter 
> of 2014, but not veteran technology journalist Walt Mossberg. Mossberg 
> credits the second act of the Mac to three factors: the leadership of Steve 
> Jobs, the rise of the Web, and Microsoft’s many mistakes.
> 
> <http://recode.net/2014/11/19/the-macs-second-act-from-obscurity-to-ubiquity/>
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
> 
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