The whole consumer computing market is following Apple
First the Macbook Air resulted in a lot of slim-down thin notebooks, then the iPad made all these PC makers scramble to put out touch-enabled stuff and made Microsoft cough up a touch-based Windows 8. (Not to mention before that, the iPhone made a lot of other phones look like iPhones)
Apple isn't just a market leader, it's a market disruptor. It doesn't matter whether people love Apple, hate it, or is indifferent towards it; What's happening is happening. Not only does Apple have had no need to tell these other companies to follow, but those companies couldn't scramble fast enough to do it.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57508831-37/the-apple-effect-on-your-next-pc/
The "Cambrian explosion":
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57505353-92/how-the-pc-market-is-being-reborn/
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33642_7-57503753-292/the-weird-new-world-of-windows-8-hybrids-laplets-vs-tabtops/
Related article:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-3121_7-57518020-220/how-windows-8-will-shake-up-the-laptop-market/
Apple isn't just a market leader, it's a market disruptor. It doesn't matter whether people love Apple, hate it, or is indifferent towards it; What's happening is happening. Not only does Apple have had no need to tell these other companies to follow, but those companies couldn't scramble fast enough to do it.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57508831-37/the-apple-effect-on-your-next-pc/
The "Cambrian explosion":
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57505353-92/how-the-pc-market-is-being-reborn/
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33642_7-57503753-292/the-weird-new-world-of-windows-8-hybrids-laplets-vs-tabtops/
Related article:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-3121_7-57518020-220/how-windows-8-will-shake-up-the-laptop-market/