Is the iPod Boosting Apple's PC Market Share?

Here is an interesting article reporting the predictions of Morgan Stanley that Apple could increase it's desktop market share to as much as 5% due to the success of the iPod. How could this happen?

We've made the switch, and I have to say that there are few regrets, if any. I am still looking for a simple PDF sorting-posting program to replace PaperPort, which even with it's flaws does a great job of helping to create a paperless office. The workaround for me, hopefully temporary, was Virtual PC. And, I hope to be able to get off that within the coming months.

For us the driving factors were viruses, hackers and spyware. These things are not totally absent from the Apple world, but they are largely so. We aren't big iPod users, but one look at that product, it's success and the simple integration Apple was able to pull off was enough to tip the scale. What we've found is that the iLife series of software is easy to use and feature rich right out of the box.

Our conclusion? Yes, the iPod has turned heads in the Apple direction. And from this and other reports we see, Apple stands to gain a lot from the "fallout" effect of this product.