Zdnet is about the last place I would look to for objective opinion on Apple. Well, maybe the Forbes contributor network. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes probably writes for them, as well. These "contributors" are directly or indirectly in Microsoft's pocketbook so of course they continually beat the drum on how MS is ascendent and Apple is "doomed" (seriously - look at his other recent articles on how Siri will "make or break" Apple tomorrow and how Apple has fumbled the past five years).
Fact is, Surface Group sales are down 26% last quarter and Apple Mac sales are up 14.4%. As the Macalope pointed out in his skewering of Mr. Kingsley-Hughes yesterday in Macworld, a Mac has rarely been the best-specced PC available for sale, which is the vector of attack pundits usually use to declare the Mac "sucks". They sell for other reasons (running macOS being a major reason along with quality and design).
