Of course almost everyone I know who is CREATIVE uses the MAC....
Except for "creative" engineers.
The PC and MAC had very different origins. At the micro-circuit level the DOS-PC was engineered for mathematical efficiency; the Apple/MAC line was engineered for graphics manipulation.
Early on graphic designers, publishers, etc. took to the MAC; accountants, engineers, etc. took to the PC. Because the software applications were so dissimilar, developers tended to migrate to one platform or the other. It was years before Microsoft developed "core" software modules that were then wrapped with machine-specific interfaces - and then Office for Windows and Office for MAC had the same look and feel, and files were easily interchanged.
Had it not been for Steve Jobs insistence on keeping MAC architecture proprietary, Apple would have overwhelmed the PC years ago. When I was at Hughes I headed a successful one-man campaign to keep the company from adopting the MAC as a company standard ; my winning argument was that because PC clones were so affordable, the work-force was buying those machines for home use and the computer learning experience could be done on the employees own time. The cheaper, more easily upgradeable DOS machines soon took over market numbers, and their greater market share caused software developers to move toward the PC (PC updates usually led MAC updates, PC applications were usually cheaper than the same for MAC, hardware upgrades were cheaper for PCs, and more applications became available on PCs.
End of lecture.
der Brucer