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Originally Posted by bhartman36
Actually, they're not all that unique. Microsoft has, for years, muscled its way into software arenas where there were already established leaders (c.f, Internet Explorer vs. Netscape, Microsoft Word vs. WordPerfect, Lotus 123 vs. Excel).
I think the most unique thing about Apple is the Cult of Jobs. You very rarely (especially in the media) see a company treated so uncritically as Apple has been treated. The first sign of the media not kissing Jobs' posterior was the flap over the iPhone 4 antenna, and from the reaction from the Apple fans, you'd think the press was accusing Jobs of eating the flesh of newborn babies and sucking the marrow from their bones.
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You have a short memory or are too young to remember macbooks getting so hot and burning people's laps. Or OS Leopard problems of '07, iMac display problems in '07, and on and on back to the Apple Newton from 1988, or the shadow of a bankruptcy in 2002.
A person has to have a significant amount of emotional bias against Apple to believe that Apple's success is solely because of a sympathetic media and mindless robot customers.
As for Android tablets competing with the iPad, Google stumbled significantly IMO with the non-release of Honeycomb. In a fledgling market with a rapidly growing 800lb gorilla there is no room for a misstep. It will take some time for Google to regroup and I believe that Ice Cream Cone will be a big step.
As for the HP TouchPad, it will stumble out of the gate just like the Playbook. It is fascinating to see how everyone laughed at the iPad when it was first announced in Jan 2010, but resulted in companies like HP scrapping their tablet plans. The bar has been raised for HP because of the stumbled starts of competitors and an 18 month regrouping.