[Swordmaker]

It's amazing to me that people can actually put forth statements like this while every Apple print advertisement and broadcast commercial, every dollar spent by and even the existence of a Marketing department at Apple stands in contradiction.

There is trying to sell something to the public, and then there is trying to compete against something. Selling TO someone is not the same as competing AGAINST a competitor. Apple doesn't really do the latter. Apple tries to please the customer. . . not counter what the competition is doing. That is what the competition is always doing; worrying about price, features, and trying to counter what the competition is doing with their next product.

You fail to understand that difference.

[tacticalogic]

You fail to understand that difference.

The original complaint was:

And what most people fail to understand is Apple isn't trying to compete with anyone.

So, it's not just me. It appears you've created a definition of "competition" unlike anything most people understand it to mean to make yourselves appear victimized.