Apple doesn't need competition to motivate them. They've shown that by reinventing the iPod every year even though there's no competition to speak of. If anythi

Apple doesn't need competition to motivate them. They've shown that by reinventing the iPod every year even though there's no competition to speak of. If anything, Apple is obsessive about innovating. There's a major new version of the dev environment underway, Xcode 4, which developers can already try for themselves: http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/whats-new.html http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/whats-new.html