Apple dives like a dead duck.
They have surpassed Microsoft and are second to Exxon Mobile in market cap. Each company that achieves a dominant position will find it very hard to keep it and most of their sales recently were to customers who already had apple products and were upgrading as Mac-heads do. 70% were upgrades. 30% new.
This has been a trend and it has a ending. All the lawsuits and guns of the blogs and media will now turn their attention from the once underdog to the now behemoth marketer, and it won't be good attention.
Underneath it all, Apple is just a marketer. Their innovations are mostly copied from others and the new phone, the 4G, has virtually little benefit over the 3G. Most analysts are surprised at the lack of new to the new phone. The video chat is ridiculous. You can only chat with another I-phone and it has to be on a wi-fi and not the network. Other phones can do network and work with other phones with video chat. What good it it!
Now we find out they have fudged the signal strength indicator....wonder why? LOL....
I think the jig is about up.
That's hilarious. Who's copying whom, here? Looks like the nattering nabobs have given up trashing the iPad and are stepping all over themselves to get some Android kludge iClone tablet to market. Same with iPhone, what the heck is Android if not a copy of iPhone?
Then, you have the entire notion of "apps," a stripped down conception of software applications ... wholly attributable to Apple and only three years ago, but you'd think that's just the way the world has always been, to listen to the would-be crowd busily knocking off Apple again and again.
It's been like this since Bill Gates kludged together Windows on top of DOS with the explicit objective of making it look like a Mac, apparently elusive still, but that was the explicit objective. The keyboard commands, everything that could be just like a Mac was just like a Mac, and what couldn't was still like a Mac but backwards, inverted scrollbars or buttons for expanding and closing windows, etcetera.
Apple was largely responsible for every single thing you take for granted, from the first successful desktop metaphor GUI to using a mouse, to color monitors, to, well, you name it. Everybody else fell in line behind them.
So, again, what are you talking about?