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Apple is not the messiah. That said, just because something is overhyped doesn't mean it's bad, even if your infinite money machine doesn't cure cancer like the ads it's still an infinite money machine and I'd take that. Secondly this lists a bunch of older products with similar ideas, but fails to show a product with all those ideas in one package. Screws and lumber and engines existed long before the airplane. Those were other people's ideas and someone else combined them. Innovation is largely combining and putting your take on existing things or finding new ways to use them. Lastly- Business is a contest and the big names don't get there by being polite or even sane. They are sore losers and do not want you to succeed if that means they may fail. This is normal for companies to go after each other frivolously. It's about tying up the other one or distracting them or gaining press to further your goals and hold them back. Android was an obvious threat to the iPhone monopoly.