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AAPL Smartphone Shows the Way to Competitors

It is a complex issue. Without question Apple has the better product and, as pointed out above, has the depth of engineering and design IP to keep turning out new products for the foreseeable future.

Yes competitors can try to copy some features but that is like driving by looking in the rear view mirror. Your future products are determined by what Apple brought out last quarter.

The one fly in the ointment could be the "good enough" effect. That is where people admit you have by far the better product but the cheaper, poorer one is "good enough" for them. As closely as Apple follows their customers I doubt this will catch them by surprise.