not sure bout the rest of the post, but this has to STOP BEING REPEATED
Apple has done a fantastic job at moving up in the PC sales market. From 6% to 12% in about a decade. But Apple is NOT stealing vast numbers of WINDOWS users.
Considering that Apple computers now also run Windows, its near impossible to claim what the true breakdown of Windows to OSx is, but it's definitely estimated that OSx is < 10% of the worldwide marketshare of Computer users.
better than 5% for sure, But there's not some mass global move away from Windows that you'd like to believe. This is an unfortunate misunderstanding and misinterpretation by Apple's fantastic product placement in popular culture.
some sources:
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
http://www.tekrevue.com/windows-8-outpaces-os-x-mavericks/
The simple fact that Windows 8, with it's terrible UI choices, at 8.5% is estimated to have already blown completely by all of OSx install base is telling.
Don't get me wrong, I RUN OSx. I also run windows on my Macs as well.
sorry, I just get a bit of OCD when Hyperbolic statements are used that aren't fundamentally backed in fact
But there is not vast migration away from windows that you claim
OnTOPIC
as for the AW: how do any of us know ifit was a success or not. if Apple's budgeting profit and loss on the device was accurate and they've hit the numbers that the accountants put in the books, it is by all intents and purposes, a success.
we just wont know. We're never privy to that