You are forgetting the Apple TV and the iMac.

Yeah, one device out ot how many? 20? 19 more to go.

You are forgetting that at the same time there is a war between Microsoft and Apple for the PC OS market. That's why there are two wars. Apple could indeed probably gain OS market share by selling their OS to anyone. It would help them in the OS war, but they could loose more in the PC war. And yes, the PC war may be more important to them, however it doesn't mean the OS war doesn't exist.

Rumors are probably wrong. If Apple wanted to make their connector standard, they would have given their dock and lightning connectors. Instead, they compete against a standard connector again.

As long as manufacturers do not start making Apple of themselves by having their own proprietary port, that's fine.

The software part of Apple still fight against Google and Microsoft on the OS market.
Just like Qualcom competes against Apple in the mobile SoC market, even if Apple doesn't sell its chip to other manufacturers.

Yeah 10-15 years sounds about right.

Google doesn't care about making profit out of Android yet. They are buying market share. They want to position themselves as a dominant player in order to profit in the future, once the smartphone market will be a lot larger than what it is today. A good comparison is Microsoft with their Xbox. They lost money with the first Xbox, but they placed themselves as an important player in the gaming console market. And then they made money with the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. It's all about the long term.

It's not as simple. Apple is both a software and a hardware company. In fact they are now a smartphone company, as their profit from other sectors is becoming negligible. It doesn't mean they will stop selling PCs. It's because they are also a fashion company (a true hardware company doesn't put that much effort/time/cost into looks and design). They sell fashion accessories (Macbooks, iPhones, iWatch, iPad) that work well together and work as bad as possible with the competition to make sure you are locked-in their products.

There are two fights. The smartphone maker fight is one. The OS fight is another. Just like there is a fight between OS X and Windows in the PC world.

Because the author consider a "power user" someone who gets the 128 GB iPhone 6+ and fill it with music and movies bought on iTunes.

That's my main criteria and I am sure it is for a lot of people out there.

Exactly what we don't need.

Blocking is still better because you save download time and resources (RAM, CPU)

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