I haven’t paid a whole lot of attention to the oncoming release of Mac OS X 10.6, because as I’ve heard mentioned I thought it was basically a service pack dressed up as a new release. I knew there was more to it, but really… how much more could it be? As it turns out, quite a lot. [..]

Apple’s amazing iPhone has pushed the competition to develop products to keep up with it. Unlike the American auto industry, competitors have reacted to Apple eating up market share and have since turned out products like the Palm Pre, Blackberry Storm and the HTC Touch Pro 2 in an effort to meet consumers’ wants and needs. It is difficult to compete with the original innovation that is the iPhone, which is the benchmark. Companies have been forced to get innovative, and do so as best they can. They aren’t selling as well, but they aren’t in need of government bailouts, either. [..]