"The only thing iOS does to improve is steal old ideas from Android and other operating systems."<p>Every time I see this I get irritated. What Apple does is take technology out there and do it better than anyone else. This is why they are the most valuable company and continue to make excellent product.<p>When I have to deal with an Android device at the office I feel immediate disgust because they all suffer the same flaws.
* An OS that can hardly run well on any hardware
* Garbage build quality
* Too much customization
* Vendor and carrier bloat
Your skin deep assessment of the Apple model so misses the point. What's that old saying? "Less is more". Apple understands this - the Android ecosystem doesn't.
"Google have built something technically equivalent to a trusted household brand. For starters, Android KitKat builds brand power on top of existing brand power via a licensing deal with Nestlé"<p>You cannot accrete X no . of brands and somehow end up with more "Brand Power" unless the optics are right.<p>KitKat and mobile devices are unrelated save for Googles running gag on Android code names - something which the majority of customers are not aware of and don't care about.<p>The author is really scraping the bottom of the barrel to support his argument.
"... the future doesn’t look so bright for Apple, who are currently sitting on an enormous amount of unsold stock"<p>What unsold stock are they referring to?