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Loads are trying their hand, but no one seems to be able to push Apple out of the #1 position when it comes to serious innovation in getting applications out onto phones. Their app store and its inherent organization and closed system are just too strong, and there are an absolute ton of great developers out there too.

#5: Apple’s road map is seriously good

You’ve got some software and hardware makers who change up their plans every few months, and bombard the market with more phone models than is ever necessary. Apple didn’t do this — they just made the one phone, worked insanely hard on making it really good, and haven’t deviated from that plan so far.

#4: It’s just all about the damn developers

There are loads of great developers out there doing work for the mac, and they know all about good design. Apple’s SDKs have always been extremely high-quality, and this fosters great quality in their developers, too. Naturally, this was their approach with the iPhone, and it has seriously paid off.

#3: The iPhone’s operating system is easily the best

No rocket science here, really — if you can control your hardware well enough, and make the software, too, your quality should automatically go up, especially when your QA standards are as high as Apple’s. No huge range of phones or clones to run the software, and you avoid all those pitfalls that come with every other mobile OS out there.

#2: Apple always likes a fight

A lot of people expected the iPhone to fail — the mobile market was simply massive, they said, full of established players who wouldn’t let Apple come in and do whatever they wanted. They continued to say this after the phone was released — basically until the app store exploded. No one is saying it anymore.

#1: When your standards are high up top, it trickles down

Hey, I’m not saying every single app in the store is wonderful, or even particularly well-designed, but when you’ve got the main company and its hardware at such a high aesthetic and design level, it automatically makes you — if, say, you’re a developer — try a whole lot harder. Apple keeps its standards up and we reap the benefits.

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