Right because under Jobs they didn't buy lala to start iTunes Radio.

Or for that matter over *20* other companies.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple

No, it's because Steve Jobs decided to go "thermonuclear" with patent litigation, and because Apple doesn't have enough valuable technology patents of its own to cross-license and refuses to pay cash.

A lot of the lawsuits have been by patent trolls. But you do remember that Apple won cases against Samsung (twice), and HTC?

Apple hype around upgrades. If iOS 7 were so good why were so many people downgrading and them complaining when that option went away? Also: automatic updates and people not realizing the ramifications of a major OS upgrade that would make everything look different and slow their device down.

And you've seen cited of representative samples of the majority if people who upgraded to iOS 7 not liking it?

People complain about change on the Internet. News at 11. How many people have complained about Facebook changes and swore they would never use it again?

Apple have squandered a lead they had with AppleTV when for a few $ you can by a cromecast of android device(even dedicated gaming ones) who cares now. In context of this article I think its cooks biggest failure.

http://m.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/new-study-google-chromecast-usage-takes-dive/#!Zzvaa

As for swift...a proprietary language, other than locking in developers to ios why would anyone care. you can't pull those tricks with a market share of 15% and shrinking however good it is...and the drivers are still slow.

Right. A proprietary language used only by Apple. That will never work.

http://m.infoworld.com/t/application-development/objective-c-regains-its-mojo-in-tiobe-language-index-218317

Except Apples shares plummeted under cooks leadership it has taken two years to recover some of it most based on market manipulation rather than actual success.

Uhh two years ago. Cook was in charge. Apple saw their highest share prices under Cook.

Its profits continue to be based on the iphone in the American market..

Someone hasn't looked at Apple's financial statements to see the breakdown of where revenues are generated by region.

.everything else is struggling including the ipad and that peaked two years ago. Apple is seeing shrinking margins and its first shrinking profits under Jobs.
The bottom line is that growth before came from successful launches of products...Cook has yet to show the world anything

So which electronic market do you think they can get in that's larger than the global phone market ? Maybe they should sell $1500 eye glasses.....

slashmydots is criticising later iterations of products Jobs launched as *new* markets, and people are buying competitors products more, because they are larger, faster, cheaper, newer, powerful blah blah blah

And still every single Android manufacturer is struggling except for Samsung. Maybe Apple knows something that you don't....

Bit where are these faster more powerful Android devices?

As for as streaming, Beats is about 5 years late to the game.

Subscription music services have tried and failed since 2000. For you to think that there are only 5 years old says something.

If only Apple had started selling music a decade ago. They might have a profitable digital music business by now.....

That's how he's filling his shoes; poorly. The ipad 3 was heavier, shattered easier at a lower drop height, and got hotter. The ipad 3 mini was a lie. IOE 6, 7, and 8 were universally hated disasters. iTunes 11's new layout was a crime against software design. Also, as usual, everyone everywhere is suing them for everything they're doing. Apple is going down like the Titanic.

Let's see where to start?

1. If iOS 7 was so bad, why was the adoption rate so high so fast?
2. The iPad 3 did suck. All indications are that the A6 and the lightening connector just weren't ready in time. They bought out a new iPad six months later.
3. ITunes has been a disaster since it started trying to manage iOS devices.
4. Everyone is suing Apple because that's where the money is. Who isn't getting sued left and right these days?
5. IOS 8 is a "disaster"? You mean the OS that isn't even shipping yet?
6. The iPad Mini 3 a lie? Huh?

Or they could have bought a company that sells high margin products and has a streaming music service because they wanted to sell high margin products and streaming music service....Nahh to simple of an explanation. I think I like your explanation better.....

No. OS X meets the "Open Group" standard called POSIX, which means it is "sufficiently" Unix-like... to meet that standard.

That is all it means. It doesn't mean "OS X is Unix". If anything, it is more like Linux than Unix, but it isn't quite either one.

No. Did you read the link? The Open Group certified OS X as meeting all of the requirements to be certified as " Unix".

POSIX compliance is different.

Due to their commanding smartphone marketshare, along with millions of devices with embedded Linux shipped every year, wouldn't Samsung be the largest UNIX vendor?

Oh? What's that? You weren't counting embedded Linux and I'm a pedantic #$(*#$&@!!!. Can't argue with that!

Mac OS X is Unix -- it's been certified as Unix by the group that holds the copyright to the term. Every version of OS X from 10.5 - 10.9 except for 10.7 has been certified unix.

http://www.opengroup.org/openb...

Linux is Unix like.

i bet it was someone trying to unlock a phone that wasn't supposed to be unlocked
AT&T cracked down on third parties selling iphone unlocks and someone was probably trying to figure out how to do it again

Why would you need to go to a third party? They have a simple form on their website that you fill out and they will unlock it for you as long as you fulfilled your contract. I requested an iPhone to be unlocked two years after I left the service and the turnaround was less than 3 days. Verizon on the otherhand....

How about $100?
Announcement post; https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/...
US store: http://item.ebay.com/291125433...

So why anyone get this instead of an Android device? There are plenty of usable Android devices for less than $100 (unsubsidized).

2001 - iPod
2003 - iTunes Music Store
2007 - iPhone
2008 - the App store.
2010 - iPad

Apple introduced 5 products/services to change an industry in 10 years. I'm not even sure that the iPod by itself should be considered industry changing before the Itunes Music Store nor am I sure where the iPhone would have been without the app store. I'm more inclined to say....

2003 - iTunes Music Store+iPod
2008 - iPhone + app store
2010 - iPad

It is understandable that this type of stuff is good for the consumer circuit, but Apple should start looking at getting into the enterprise. Consumers are a fickle lot, and with Jobs gone, Cook has done a good job at keeping the legacy going, but Apple may end up in a bind in the next few years. Expand into too many markets, get spread thin. Stay in the same markets and get hammered by shareholders for not "growing".

And focusing on the enterprise did wonders for Dell and HP......

Who needs a cellphone carrier if they have access to the internet?

So who do you think is going to provide this ubiquitous internet ?