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Meaning Google and Microsoft have a tougher time playing catch up, than Apple. In reply to posters comment.

Makes perfect sense -)

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Meaning Google and Microsoft have a tougher time playing catch up, than Apple.

You must be living on another planet.

Google and its Android OEMs, are a few years ahead of Apple in hardware features. And, Google and Microsoft are light-years ahead of Apple in a lot of other sectors in the IT industry. For example, Google Assistant and Cortana/Bing, are years ahead of Apple's siri. And, Google and Microsoft have search engines which are many times more advanced than anything that Apple uses. And, Google and Microsoft have major and powerful cloud services, while Apple is mostly just a "user" of the clouds created by others, such as Amazon and Microsoft.

BTW, MS does not make its own smartphones anymore, but when it comes to its still existing Windows Mobile OS, it's still better than iOS, and MS's Windows is still leading everyone when it comes to features and power and number of users.

While Apple is busy catching up, MS and Google and most other hardware and software makers are busy creating the stuff that Apple will copy a few years later.