"For some reason, Apple is not only never allowed to fail, it's [sic] success's [sic] are quickly glossed over while competing products like the Microsoft Surface are lauded as products of the future... Apple is damned if it does and is damned if it doesn't."<p>What the what? Pretty much <i>all the tech industry has talked about for the last ten years</i> has been Apple's successes; it's the <i>failures</i> that are quickly forgotten. The failures cited in the article (MobileMe, Ping, and the G4 Cube) have all completely dropped from public conversation, but people still regularly talk about their Next Big Thing being "the iPod of [insert industry here]" and Apple is routinely cited as the Gold Standard of product design.<p>And besides all that, there's the absolute truckloads of money Apple takes home every day, which I would think would ease the sting of the occasional negative story somewhat.<p>I mean, come on. I'm old enough to remember a time when Apple fans really could argue honestly that the company was under siege from a hostile commentariat. But those days ended a long time ago.