[citation][nom]hakesterman[/nom]Abrahm - I think it's the latter. Apple knows that Android devices are going to take over the market and render the iPhone a niche just like the Mac. They are trying their best to delay the inevitable.Abrahm your either on crack or meth if you think the Iphone or Imac is going away anytime soon. Unlikemicrosoft their buisness is actually still growing. I always get a kick out of these losers who try to convince the world AMD and Apple are just going to fall off the face of the earth tommorow. They havebeen saying it for a decade and it just never happens, instead they just keep growing.[/citation]
I wouldn't imply Microsoft's business is failing. That's just stupid. If you ONLY look at the Home OS side of the market, well, they pretty much own it.
That doesn't include their line-up of business products (Windows Server, Exchange, Office, Dynamics [an alternative to SAP for small business], etc.).
As coincidence would have it, the iPhone is still behind the Blackberry, and it's very unlikely any other phone will replace it as the choice of businesses.
(BES does more than just push e-mails)
I'm not saying Apple still isn't going to be growing, love him or hate him, Steve Jobs is has managed the Apple image brilliantly, however I'm not sure that their market will be able to keep expanding as quickly as it has been over the past 'N' years without lowering prices or improving on the overall experience.
/endrant
As an aside, Google is more of a direct threat to Apple than Microsoft is at this point. So it makes sense if they get off of the caffeine.