All and all, I would agree with the consensus in the article below. Still, I believe that Apple is an untapped giant waiting to shock us all.

PC World’s Dan Tynan provides his “completely unscientific and highly opinionated picks for the biggest winners and losers of the year in technology” as follows:

WINNER: Apple Computer: Apple started the year with the Mac Mini, a pint-size $499 Macintosh sans monitor, and ended it with the long-awaited video-enabled IPod. In between, Apple announced it would start using Intel chips in its new line of Macs. The first Intel-based Macs should debut at around the same time as Windows Vista, which could lead to the first serious OS competition since, oh, 1989. All in all, a very good year in Apple-achia. [Read the rest]