[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Just try to explain how the 'dominant' company is so far behind the others in market share, and how it’s being eclipsed by newer technologies (like Android)."

If iPhone is not dominant, why is everyone trying to copy it?

Including Android. That fragmented, chaotic, variable-quality mobile OS whose (highly arguable) "eclipsing" to which you refer is thanks to giveaway and 2-for-1 phones from several manufacturers?

A bigger mystery to me: Why are certain Freepers so eager to defend and extol the fruit of theft, betrayal and dirty dealing? Eric Schmidt is one untrustworthy worm.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Funny, HTC’s TouchFLO was out before Apple’s iPhone. The form factor was out well before the iPhone. Nokia pioneered every feature that the iPhone has. What exactly are people copying from Apple, save a marketing scheme?

And at least with Android, you don’t have the false sense of security of that walled garden that was just breached. Oh, and you can run the apps you want. And not worry about Apple retroactively deciding you cannot but the app any more.