apple revenue

How important is the iPhone to Apple's business going forward? See the chart above, prepared by Fortune. Up from 5.7% in 2008 to 18.5% in 2009.

We're going to say "very" and "increasingly". Daring Fireball highlights how Apple goes about ensuring that "increasingly" part, riffing off The Loop's reminder of when Apple killed the iPod mini at the hight of its popularity and replaced it with the iPod nano:


Given that competition is ramping up (see Android Central's coverage of Droid Day, CrackBerry's BlackBerry Storm2 watch, and Nokia Experts' massive N900 guide), is that internal drive still enough?