Horn I checked the new APPLE link you gave and it worked fine. The first thing I checked out was Apple's 5 year sales record.
1994 9,189
1995 11,062 (win 95 is released)
1996 9,833
1997 7,081
1998 5,941
I pieced together that Apple's 1999 revenues should be up a bit to just over 6 billion dollars. That's not the major turn around Apple needs to remain a strong player in the industry. If it wasn't for such strong sales of the iMac revenues would have continued their slide. The problem is that the hype from the iMac will inevitably die down and unless another popular product fills it's place the trend will begin again. I don't see Apple lasting that much longer unless Gates decides to keep them around to avoid Anti-Trust. Heck, with free PC's on the way many of the small players in the Wintel market are about to get whacked too. I believe this long term reality is one reason AH isn't going MAC. The short term benefits are negligable and long term it doesn't appear that many Apple customers will be left to play AH. I say this as a former Apple devotee. I hated DOS and couldn't imagine using a PC. Then Win 95 came out and it was all over. The damned things are so good, so cheap and so universally supported. I'm typing this to you on a P2 450 with 128 Megs of ram, 14 Gigs of HD space, a 17" monitor, Voodoo 3000 graphics card, etc. etc. All this for about $800. I'm happy I switched.
p.s.
Just the other day I saw something called an E-PC. At it's core it's a $400 PC dressed up like an iMac. The E-PC is probably a hunk of crap, but when people are buying computers based on their appearance are they going to know or even care?