Apple charts the future of private, premium tech – alone

Daniel Eran Dilger writes for Roughly Drafted:
Apple didn’t create a monopoly in Park Place-priced hardware. It’s just been a game that everyone else failed at. Microsoft blew billions at rivaling iOS with Windows Mobile, Band, and Surface… Google frittered away billions of dollars in various vanity projects from netbooks to tablets to wearables to well, phones, before admitting that its entire last decade of hardware strategy was a throwaway effort and that its true calling w