USBill said:I don't know that they "own" the market. The iPhone is one phone and amounts for nearly as many devices as all the Android phones combined. That's like comparing sales of the Corvette with all the other cars on the road.
I'd be interested to see how Apple's competitors react as well. The problem is that Apple has a very solidly-entrenched first-mover advantage, coupled with its highly popular products, which makes difficult for rivals, no matter how good they are, to gain enough of a foothold. Look at other businesses with a similar position: Google in search engines, Facebook in social networks and Windows in operating systems. Even though a competing product might be 'better', it simply can't dislodge the market leader in that space.