Additionally Apple keeps rolling out new services that are difficult for dinosaurs to understand. Where's the file system? Why isn't iCloud exactly like DropBox? Where is the support for NFC tapping in Passbook, so I can write a story about technologies nobody is using? And why is Apple convincing the public to buy mobile devices to play games when I prefer to play Xbox 360 titles?
<http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/06/22/editorial-ios-7-shows-how-apple-is-leading-mobile-computing>
An interesting article; it begins:
> Apple owns the future of mobile devices, not because it has erected a near monopoly market position protected by major barriers to entry like IBM in 1970s or Microsoft's DOS and Windows in the 80s and 90s or Google's search and Adobe's Flash in the 2000s; Apple sells its products within a very diverse and openly competitive market and maintains minority unit market share in smartphones.
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> It just happens that Apple is making the vast majority of all the profits in mobile hardware, software, media and services. And the mobile segment happens to have much brighter prospects than the rest of the consumer technology market, particularly WinTel PCs.
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