[popo]

Apple are rarely the first to do anything, if ever. What they are good at, is being the first to do it well enough to gain traction. The growth of the modern era Apple is a good example of that. They weren't the first with an mp3 player. They weren't the first music store. They were the first to get them working well, and together. Similarly with the iPhone. I'd argue outside those areas... they're stagnating along with the rest of the tech world but they have enough momentum to do pretty much what they want. If you look at individual parts of Apple, they're really not special. Where they succeed beyond all others is being able to market it.

 

At least they mostly stopped making stupid statements about their Mac performance since they moved to Intel.