People don't care about their despotic and toxic environment for the little guys or competitors because they have the best products.
That seems to be changing as Android increases in marketshare every day, and Ultrabooks are taking off while Mac marketshare generally has remained stagnant over the past 8 quarters.
So, it seems like we already are moving away from Apple. The only thing they can do is now rely on petty lawsuits that damage their reputation in the engineer/tech community, which will hurt them in the long run even more so. The best way to fight it is to fund startups that have a focus on open systems and a proven commitment to free open software. Currently, the the hardware market is controlled by a few very, very large OEMs. Slowly, though, PCB and fab is opening up to many more people besides Samsung, LG, et al. Especially with Kickstarter, I don't see it likely that we will still have a hardware oligopoly in the next 5 years. More boutique manufacturers will spring up, and like it has for desktops, mobile hardware will open up.
The next step after that is to reform the broken US patent system so gorillas like Apple and Microsoft can't abuse it.
That seems to be changing as Android increases in marketshare every day, and Ultrabooks are taking off while Mac marketshare generally has remained stagnant over the past 8 quarters.
So, it seems like we already are moving away from Apple. The only thing they can do is now rely on petty lawsuits that damage their reputation in the engineer/tech community, which will hurt them in the long run even more so. The best way to fight it is to fund startups that have a focus on open systems and a proven commitment to free open software. Currently, the the hardware market is controlled by a few very, very large OEMs. Slowly, though, PCB and fab is opening up to many more people besides Samsung, LG, et al. Especially with Kickstarter, I don't see it likely that we will still have a hardware oligopoly in the next 5 years. More boutique manufacturers will spring up, and like it has for desktops, mobile hardware will open up.
The next step after that is to reform the broken US patent system so gorillas like Apple and Microsoft can't abuse it.