Yes, as Apple has demonstrated in the past with the iPod (mp3 players), iTunes (digital media distribution), and the iPhone (touchscreen smartphones) that they are both a market innovator and market maker, which often opens the floodgates for other competitors down the road.
They aren't necessarily the first to do these technologies in the market; but they have demonstrated that they are the first to do them on a large scale that paves the way to mainstream market adoption.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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