Apple definitely had some misses over the years, but this is deeply unfair to a company that has basically designed the entire landscape of consumer software that we see today.  The Apple was copied by IBM, Mac OS was copied by Windows, and iOS was copied by Android (which was pre-existing but was completely redesigned in the image of iOS).<p>If you want to see a hardware company that doesn&#x27;t get software, look no further than Sony.  Apple&#x27;s main problem is that they don&#x27;t get <i>cloud services</i>.  This is where Apple can&#x27;t compete with Google in the same way that Sony couldn&#x27;t compete with Apple.