99,9999% of the haters don't know shit about Apple and their products.

I rather pay "overpriced" stuff that lasts 10 years instead of a crappy PC that has to be modded every 2-3 years and/or replaced & cleaning up the system all the time.

my PC laptop has last 6 years so far haven't formatted. It has been running 24/7 for the last three years with a few reboots here and there whilst i installed updates or software. 

it is all about how to treat your hardware that will determine the life of it. Not a shiny apple on the back lol.

Interesting theory, which I have an opinion on.

Apple is not a stupid company by any stretch. I believe they are smarter than Microsoft when it comes to computers. Microsoft just has the advantage of colluding with Dell and other computer hardware creators to include Windows and Office in almost every single PC. Apple not having this collusion has profit margins that are higher, puts out the most desired consumer electronics in the US (iPhone, iPad and on), and has basically taken a lot of money from Nintendo DS software sales due to the success of iOS games.

Looking at Apple's culture as a company, the one persistent thing is that they have always come from the "Everyone underestimates us, we are David to Microsoft's Goliath, and I am the little guy with a chip on my shoulder" culture. Many would take this as Apple becoming the modern day Sega. In light of their products, Apple is more in tune with the American family than the counter-culture teenager whom Sega appealed to in the 1990s.

For these reasons, I don't think Apple would ever compete head-to-head with Microsoft and Sony. I think Apple would go for Nintendo's core "family friendly" market in the US. Taking a look at the demand for the iPad, iPhone and their computers amongst dads, moms, kids, and college students, Apple would give Nintendo a major run for it's money in the US market.

If anyone should fear Apple in video games, it is Nintendo. Apple is already mucking up their hand-held monopoly via iOS games. Apple would do the same to any Nintendo console if they jumped into the console market.

This is right.   Apple probably *could* buy EA or such and give MS & Sony a run for their money but...wait... what money!?  They've both lost more money on console gaming than they've ever earned!   There is simply no way high-profit Apple is going to step into those already bloody waters only to lose money too.  Even a win would be considered a loss by shareholders.

They would definitely go after Nintendo's billions making expanded audience and seek to expand it even further.   I'd expect them to come out with a system 'core' gamers consider underpowered and overpriced but that would be super accessible, ultra-cool and sell millions at a price that would make Sony weep in envy.

The iOS platform brings up an interesting conundrum as a platform for game sales; by the same token, would Valve be part of the games industry, or is this limited only to people making hardware on which sales platforms can operate? Would that make Dell part of the industry? Where is that line drawn?

The iOS platform brings up an interesting conundrum as a platform for game sales; by the same token, would Valve be part of the games industry, or is this limited only to people making hardware on which sales platforms can operate? Would that make Dell part of the industry? Where is that line drawn?

Doesn't Dell own Alienware? That seems to be a pretty gaming-oriented brand to me. I would certainly say that Valve is, since they not only operate a social and distribution network, but they make games themselves.

I would argue that a company is only "in the gaming industry" so much as it invests capital for the purpose of fostering games. In this regard, Nintendo is obviously huge, since they operate two hardware platforms and a huge amount of development and publishing resources.

Apple is relatively tiny, but ramping up. Three years ago it made roughly zero investment to foster games. Now it's adding social networks (Game Center), APIs, and hardware (gyroscopes) designed with gaming in mind. It's even working with Valve to improve Mac gaming and in the next version of Mac OS will try to recreate the massive success of the App Store, which is largely driven by game sales.

If I load up the App Store right now, I see five of the top ten grossing iPad apps are games. On iPhone, it's eight out of ten. This game market first landed in Apple's lap with hardly any serious effort, but now that it's here, the company is quite aware of how important games are to its mobile platform.

I love my mac, ive used apple computers since they were using the old g4 procecessor made by ibm, they have always been very solid pieces of hardware but more importantly the software has always been top notch, stable, fluid and very user friendly.  Now i know that most of you (from what ive read) hate apple for some reason or other, but for me their products have been second to none, and if they were to enter the gaming market they would bring one of the best engineering teams in the field of electonics, and im not just talking about product design but technology first and foremost. 

You know those wonderful touch screen phones that most of us use(whether its an iphone or not)  apple is the company responsible for mainstreaming that technology.  Their products are inovative, sleek, easy to use and have excellent build quality, and for the very few times i have had to use it the customer service has always been top notch, i don't see how apple entering the console market good be anything but good, through their inovation, design and resources they could push console gaming to a new level and push sony and ms to new hights as well good competion almost always breeds excellent products for the consumer, but for now, Im PS3 all the way.