Well Android is now comfortably outselling iOS and it has already lept ahead in terms of features with 4G in the US, and there are more and more phones coming, and the iPhone 5 might help, but within a few months, Android phones will have superceded it

And I have no idea what your other points are. I could make my homepage look identical to an iPhone users if I wanted, but I don't. Android provides everything that iOS does and more. The only advantage iOS has is that it gets some apps before Android, but that won't be for too long

I am a Mac guy especially for laptops will never buy a PC again and was a 1st gen Iphone user but lack of customization kills the Iphone for me. Ipad I have no use for. I will be getting a Samsung Galaxy s2 when that gets release for sprint

imo the growth and current size of apple is just purely unsustainable in the short-to-medium term. Apple as a company has made great strides to be where it is now through innovation. First the ipod, later the iphone and a new series of popular macbooks etc, all these were crucial during the last decade for Apple.

Now, however, we have the same thing we see with most companies in this kind of situation: no creative ideas on what to do next.

Iphone 5? After not much more than a year since we got the iphone 4? Ipad 2? A tablet that since the beginning has been playing catch up in terms of functionality with the competition? Constant new macbook revisions with little to none (emphasis on the second) enhancements made to core functionality? I get the feeling this will eventually backfire on them.

Unfortunately Apple has some questionable business practices when it comes to fair pricing and quality of service in countries outside of the "reputable western countries". Because i still don't understand why Apple can push and shove all consumers west of Berlin despite the fact that we are all in the European Union.

About oil.....there is a very...interesting theory picking up in the academic world that oil is a substance that might replenish on it's own accord because....some genetic and chemistry studies have shown that oil does not derive from organic substances. Some theories question whether it does not come from natural geothermal processes from within the earths crust....But like i said earlier, this is just a theory that should be taken with a HUGE grain of salt ;)

But if it were true....oh the looks on the faces of ecologists would be priceless :)

well it took alot of work and overpriced products to get the this far.

PullusPardus said: for the people who are arguing, i got all phone OS's that exist, You Jelly?

Seeing that questionable way to spend money, not really.

@scotty: It's all aesthetics and build quality (at those prices, you should get both). The iOS isn't THAT much easier to handle than Android, and if someone can't handle a windows PC, you have to wonder how they manage to... well, live. Windows 7 is pretty much perfect.

Ssh Ssh before the evil energy companies as well as the environment/climate huggers are unto you.

If true though let's hope it isn't all forming in huge quantities in the Persian Gulf

Apple has successfully marketed and placed the Apple devices as luxury products. They are brilliant at marketing. Sort of like Audi trying to gain traction against its german rivlals.

I can see Apple being as dominant as they are now for another 5 years, and then I believe they'll start to become a bit more 'ordinary' in terms of their performance.

Even if true, surely the World would still try and wean itself off oil once decent alternatives are available?

While oil is not running out at a threatening pace, I think the cheapest oil might be. Using oil obviously isn't good for the planet either, whether global warming is real or not. 

Well they are trying to take over the world.