What's eating Apple?

[Marc Anthony]

vision63 wrote:
No one ever mentions the attractiveness and quality of it's competitors products and how Apple isn't doing much to counter it. Carriage fees have been a large segment of their profits if I'm not mistaken, so nobody has paid enough attention to the rapid reduction of their marketshare and their failure to counter the avalanche of competitor product in the marketplace.

I agree with this point; the competition has gotten a lot better lately, and I think it may prove an error to not have gotten litigious at the outset with Android. They took Samsung to court over copycat devices, but the copycat OS is now more prevalent in the category Apple basically invented. At 60% less than the of the cost, those devices are looking more and more appealing.