> you probably don’t want to stake your business on always being the first company to find the next breakthrough that's like a better half of the entire Apple

> you probably don’t want to stake your business on always being the first company to find the next breakthrough that's like a better half of the entire Apple business model that brought them success, find the next hot thing (like a capacitive touchscreen or high density displays), make exclusive deals with hardware providers so you can release a device using that new tech and feed on it for some time till the the upstream starts leaking tech left and right and you competition can finally catch up