[kscherer]

That's the media talking.

Apple has more multi-billion-dollar tricks than any other company out there. If the SEC came along and divided all of Apple's tricks up (Mac, iPod, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV), each would be a super-sccuessful, highly profitable corporation and still scorned the world over because other tech companies can't figure out how to make any money making [what they think is] the exact same stuff.

Personally, the only lasting mistake I think Apple is making involves making iOS too complicated and MacOS too simple. They're doing it because there is a convergence coming, but it's that convergence that stands the greatest risk of ruining the whole works.