How Apple flips the switch and keeps bringing in new customers

The more things change, the more things stay the same. For the past several years, the comic strip Doonesbury has been in re-runs for its weekday strips; this past week's series, hailing from 1995, dated from the release of Windows 95, in which one of the strip's characters pointed out the superiority of Apple's Macintosh, only to be brought back down to earth by the reality of Microsoft's platform dominance.More than a quarter of a century later, Apple has become one of the most valuable and p