Google makes money. Samsung makes money. Xiaomi makes money. I'm sure others do too, even if it's less than Apple. The fact some companies don't make money

Google makes money. Samsung makes money. Xiaomi makes money. I'm sure others do too, even if it's less than Apple. The fact some companies don't make money is meaningless. Is it Microsoft's fault if an OEM goes out of business? And the innovation thing goes both ways. Yes Apple popularized a form factor, but remember there still was BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Maemo, etc..., before iOS. And every new feature on iOS 9's launch page is more or less taken from Android, some features being several years old. Thinking about technology that developers use, very little comes from Apple. They contribute, but no one is launching their startup on OSX servers. No one is coding the next search engine in Objective C or Swift. Apple products are a shiny computer that hosts apps. The point of the article is that Apple has an unassailable position. That's what a lot of people thought about Volkswagen a year ago. What they thought of Microsoft a decade ago. Also what we think of Google today... The point is, Apple does nothing so special that they can't be beaten.