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It seems to me that a rerun of the AppleII/Macintosh versus IBM type pcs is beginning with Ipad/Iphones. In the late 1970's Apple nearly monopolized the market in microcomputers, but only until an alternative open source competition developed starting with IBM. We all know that today Apple computer systems of all types are a tiny percentage of pc microcomputers from multiple companies; Apple has never been able to recovery its lost dominance in computers. The same will happen to Apple's new entertainment systems - unless Apple is able to develop and market another blockbuster such as the Ipad, it is doomed to eventually be smothered by competition from Ipad-like items from multiple companies.
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