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It’s Apple’s world and welcome to it. Or more to the point, it’s Apple’s way or the highway.

There was an exceptional article in The New York Times about 2 weeks ago that likened Apple’s iPad to America’s interstate highway system. In it, the author quoted Michael Cusumano, professor at the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T., saying “Apple has hit that magical combination of gradually shifting from a product to a platform strategy.”