Apple Users

Every other device wants to be an iPhone. Many of them eclipse it by one measure or another, but none of them are the total package. iPhone was first to market and is the most mature of the products. It *is* the smart phone paradigm. The others just want to be.

Now to be sure, you can find a faster this or bigger screen that or a thinner the other, but all of them are "me too" devices. The iPhone IS the device.

I agree with you about worrying about Apple now that Jobs is gone. That said, Apple is actually no longer in the hardware business. They're in the content business and their hardware is just a conduit. I don't think anyone other than, maybe, Microsoft get that. Apple owns both content and conduit and has the strongest identity in the business. MS labors under the reputational burden of many shitty versions of its flagship product and a few very bad tries at hardware (how Zune *can* we forget??). MS smart phones are barely on the radar.