Ever since the 1Q earnings calls its seems like people have been rushing to praise AAPL and rushing to bash GOOG. Google has fundamentally changed how we use the web, how we look at E-mail ( no more 100MB limits ), how the smart phone market looks, and how corporations do business. All this while having the best data transparency policy in the market ( lets see you get your data out of Facebook ). They may not be the city on a hill that they once were, but they are a lot closer to it then their biggest rivals, and I still think they will make it back up there.