Android vs iOS vs Windows

[Grieve]

This may be one of the most valid comparisons of the iPhone you have defined. Blackberry owned the business market. Hell 10 years ago there is no way in hell I would have thought that BB would have lost its market share. But it got its ass handed to it. Apple will too if it doesn't do something.

Maybe. Or maybe Android will be the one that tanks. Who knows? Saying "it happened to Blackberry so it will happen to Apple" doesn't really hold water.

Apple has been selling it's own "closed" computers for 30 years - based on your comments, how are they still in business? How are they selling more computers now than ever before? In fact when iPads are included (and why shouldn't they be?), they are the largest PC company in the world.

You have them colored glasses on again.. My wife has a iphone 4 and has many accessories such as media / speaker portals for home and work, as well as docking station for the car. She looked at iphone5, and she was going to have to replace them all, or buy a clumsy adapter.

That's a pretty weak argument. That's the first time they have changed the adaptor in 10 years, and it will likely be another 10 years until they change it again. Samsung used to have proprietary connectors as well (which looked ridiculously identical to Apple ones), and a couple of years ago they changed over to microUSB. Strangely there was no controversy back then, because they have a non-existant hardware ecosystem.

We have a bunch of iPod/iPad/iPad hardware and cables, and haven't replaced a thing. You can get a small adaptor for a couple of bucks on Amazon. The whining I hear online about replacing hardware boggles my mind. "Oh man, using a two dollar adaptor is a pain, so I HAVE to spend $1000 completely replacing my hardware instead!".

Plus this is the computer industry, technology evolves. Man, I bet it sucked for all those people with 100s of 5 1/4" floppy disks when 3 1/2" disks arrived. Then those bastards did it again with CD-ROM drives! Hey, and it was Apple who pioneered both of those changes as well...obviously another evil Apple plot.

but Android manufactures have chosen open standards like Bluethooth and standard usb connectors that can not only be used on multiple phones but virtually any device out there, be it, PC, Cameras, TV's, Stereos, mics head sets etc etc, where everything apple is proprietary.

Really everything? Man, I wonder how it is that the bluetooth in my iPhone talks to my car or wireless keyboard then? Especially since you just said they don't support it. Or how my devices get on my wifi network? And I must be mistaken that Safari is based on the open source WebKit...which was started by Apple, and is also what Google Chrome is based on. And I guess Apple never pushed for the open-standard HTML-5 in preference to the completely proprietary Adobe Flash.

Maybe you shouldn't believe everything you read online.