Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL )! Who cares about its $355 billion market cap or its
all-encompassing influence on the PC industry thanks to the iPads monumental
popularity? No one, thats who! There are 499 other companies on Fortune s annual
list, and a large number of them are competing with Apple in a variety of
segments in the technology industry. Those companies are gunning for Apple in
2012. At the beginning of 2011, plenty of companies were planning to do the
same. Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI ), Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM ) and
many others were planning to hit hard with their own tablets, but the Xoom and
PlayBook were all but ignored by consumers when they came out earlier this year.
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ), looking to compete with the slim MacBook Air laptop line,
pushed its new Ultrabook laptop architecture, but so far, early-adopting
manufacturers such as Asus have found little success. In these closing weeks,
though, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ) has made some headway against the Cupertino,
Calif.-based giant thanks to the early success of the Kindle Fire tablet. Apple
is not impregnable, it turns out. So whats being released in 2012 that can
further rattle Tim Cooks house? Read on:
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