> If you could copy Apple's tech, you could (theoretically) make an iPhone-clone Apple's competitive edge isn't just its hardware, just as Google's competitive

> If you could copy Apple's tech, you could (theoretically) make an iPhone-clone Apple's competitive edge isn't just its hardware, just as Google's competitive edge isn't just its software. Apple has decades of user research, hoards of talent, piles and piles of IP (patents etc.), mountains of cash and, yep, you bet they have data, huge warehouses of it. We haven't even mentioned the app-store ecosystem. You are about as able to compete with Apple as you are with Google et al. It's a different kind game, but make no mistake, taking on Apple isn't as simple as cloning their hardware.