[gordon_freeman]

Apple still has a huge advantage with their iOS app ecosystem. They can introduce a hardware and add an SDK to iOS that allows their developers to create apps that seamlessly work on that hardware. But they need to come up with the hardware fast because Amazon will race far ahead otherwise.

[ianai]

Let's not forget their huge cash on hand. Apple could purchase its way into any market and technology at this point.

[sosborn]

I really like apple stuff, but your sentence could have easily applied to Microsoft at the dawn of smartphones. Capital is not a guaranteed path to success.

[ianai]

Microsoft hasn't gone away. Both companies are huge successes. They've just got failures like everybody else. Unlike most, they're still owners of markets.