...they're doing far better than any single competitor in the smartphone arena...

Except Samsung.
http://gigaom.com/apple/samsung-probably-sold-the-most-smartphones-in-2011/
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/samsung-beats-apple-smartphone-sales-20120427-1xq29.html

A lot of the other comments here about contracts are on the money however you also need to understand Samsung. Samsung are not at all like Apple. Apple is one big monolithic company who make Apple Things. Samsung are another big company who are made up of various divisions who have nothing at all to do with one another. They make things like heavy machinery, to RAM, to semiconductors, to Galaxy devices, to who knows what else. A lot like Sony or Hitachi or Hyundai, etc. So the division that makes the components that sells to Apple probably has 0 interaction (other than selling to) the division that makes Galaxy Tablets. And you can bet they do sell to the tablet division, too.

How are they copying Apple, exactly? By having rounded corners?? I can tell you, there is an enormous difference between a Galaxy S2 and an iPhone or even between Android (which Samsung do not make) and iOS.

Besides - look at the iOS 5 launch video and then look at Android from about 2 years earlier and tell me who is copying who, now? Notifications?!? Apps pushed from the cloud to all your devices?!? Android did those things in 2009 - and it did (and still does) them a lot better. iCloud?

I don't see Google screaming that Apple stole the ideas from them but I do see Apple claiming originality on those very ideas in that launch video, despite the fact Android has done them for a much longer time.

I see a company who has been thoroughly routed on the technology once again and is desperately trying to sue their way clear, rather than innovate their way clear.

Then you're a perfect customer for whatever Apple is selling! :-P

Because the case was brought aboutbefore this text was added later and has been added as a direct result of this case. Prior to the case, the text said something to the effect of (some paraphrasing included) "iPad3: Now with moar Gs!"

MacBook Air running Chrome. Entry level specs. Game runs perfectly.

I mean it sucks as a game (now - back in the day I loved it) but it runs on this platform far faster than it ever did back on my 1992 PC, which was probably an 80386DX40, from memory.

Yeah it's very much a case of "who you listen to" - although I would discount out of hand any WikiMedia stats outright, as they massively over-inflate iOS stats to the point of lunacy, being about 2.5 times higher than every other source.

None the less, if Ubuntu makes good on its claim of 5%, my point is it's comparable to reasonable estimates of OSX, which are around 6-9% (probably 7% is a good estimate). 5% and 7% market share are not too different in my opinion, so it would be the first true sign of life for Linux on the Desktop.

My personal belief is, given the enormous popularity of Android (61% of US market, announced today, almost 75% of China and about 55% of Australia), the upcoming Ubuntu for Android (http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android) options will make Linux on the desktop a reality; although in a way no one expected when /. first started that meme. Motorola is already working something basically the same and once people can easily dock their smartphone to a keyboard / mouse / monitor and have a windowed desktop environment instantly appear, I think it will really start to take off. I know for my work, I could probably do about 75% of my daily things like this - 100% if I include Remote Desktop.

It's not ridiculously far off OSX, either. Many sources put this at between 6% to 10%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

I guess in a way, if this happens, it pretty much will be the year of the Linux Desktop - or at least any Mac users (myself included) would be hard pressed to argue otherwise.

It's not a typo - it's a Dilbert-o. The creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams, recommends people refer to their co-workers as cow-orkers as a surreptitious form of insulting them, which you can back out of if needs be. :-) Same thing with in-duh-viduals.

I used to think that every time someone posted "shill", etc they were just being paranoid but seriously, this is just now getting beyond a joke.

You have 6 posts - all of them anti Google, on a brand new account. Honestly; how dumb do you astroturfers think people are?? If you're getting paid to do this, you're wasting your client's money. At least try and be vaguely opaque about what you're doing. Posts like this are an insult to our collective intelligence and a complete waste of your time and resources.

It also lowers the general opinion of the likely candidates for cliency (i.e. Microsoft), so it's not only failed in the primary purpose of making people question Google - it's also made us more likely to automatically defend Google simply to shut you down and it's also made people even more distrustful of Microsoft (because it's easy to put 1 and 1 together and notice the plethora of anti-Google posts coupled with the pro Windows phone posts from similar accounts).

Please stop this crap because you're wasting everyone's time and damaging your own client in the process.