Why the PC makers and Microsoft will never beat Apple

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that struggling Hewlett-Packard was doubling its investment in PC designers to overcome its design disadvantage against Apple. The Journal quoted CEO Meg Whitman, who took the job a year ago, as saying when she became CEO she was handed a "brick" that had no appeal to her as a user. This anecdote was supposed to explain how HP has ended up becoming a boring PC maker with declining sales of PCs against the Apple juggernaut.Phil Mickelson J.K. Rowling Brad Pitt Peter Jackson