Hey, I might take this personally.
Really, I don't like Apple's current pricing shenanigans. For instance, I planned on getting a MacBook Air but now I feel rather like getting ripped off by Apple selling $2 adapters for $29 so that I can have my DVI and VGA. Nor do I like the loss of the FireWire port on the MacBook, not even as a stock owner to-be. But in all earnesty, I am not sure whether Apple have "priced themselves out of the market". Yesterday's hints at Vista and Blu-ray were quite obvious. The same goes for the glossy displays. It remains to be seen if the new models are a bad move, let alone "epic failure" on Apple's part. Maybe they can get away with it, cause they have OS X. That's the point I was trying to get across.
In any case, I sincerely hope Microsoft get their act together to come up with a great (or solid, at least) next Windows release. I really do. Although I believe Microsoft losing market share has been a good thing for us Mac users over the last few years. More retailers, hardware vendors and IT departments (in universities for instance) support the Mac platform nowadays.
However, Apple seems to be getting overconfident and plain unhealthily arrogant again. So I really for some serious competition from the PC side. Not in terms of market share but in terms of inventions and price/value ratios. Other PC manufacturers have done their homework. Now it's up to Microsoft (if anybody) to make a great operating system to go against OS X.