Anderton
http://www.prosoundnetwork.com/blogs/2433/view
That article contained a line particularly interesting to me:
You never know what rabbit Apple will pull out of a hat, and perhaps a mind-blowing generation of workstation computers is just around the corner.
That certainly is a possibility, but IMHO, Apple long ago decided the whole world wants everything to exist on screens that are no more than 1/4" thick and 10" on diagonal -- and seriously, keyboards and mice are so 1980. Certainly there are many things humans want to do that work well with such a format. There might even be some mini-DAW cases where that is a good thing. But I do not believe that anybody in any position of authority at Apple appreciates that there are some applications that really do work best with big, powerful desktop platforms and lots of glass.
That same thought process almost ended the consumer-facing side of Microsoft, and probably would have if they had tried to survive another year with Steve Ballmer in charge. Under Ballmer's watch, he pushed Microsoft to believe that people actually wanted desktop machines to work exactly like phones, and that whole "Metro" app thing almost did Microsoft in. (I am talking the end user side of Microsoft. The "corporate" side was always strong, anchored by SQL server and related products.)
But it does seem that Microsoft has learned an important lesson. That is, while desktops may not be sexy or a high growth area, they are vital to a large number of applications and failure in that area reflects badly on everything else Microsoft tries to do. Not coincidentally, about the same time, Microsoft figured out nobody even wanted phones to work the way Microsoft envisioned them, let alone forcing that framework on the desktop systems.
Who knows where this will all be 5 years from now? It seems to me that Microsoft has learned their lesson and Apple has not, so Microsoft looks like the better bet to me.