1) Apple offers two key products that are helping the company to develop a new market. These new products and trailblazing efforts will be the key factor in determining Apple's long-term strength in the industry and its ability to maintain a thriving business. The Mac is a competitive product that maintains a certain level of market shares but Apple's two key drivers of the future will be iTunes and iPod. Both are intertwined to make for a very successful attempt to develop new markets in an emerging environment within the music industry.
Digital music has been around for years, but the le…