Beware The Vortex of Doom! Competition is heating up, your suppliers exerting upward pressure, your customers are exerting downward pressure, your products and strategies are being imitated. Sooner or later no matter how successful your product based business is, you will hit a wall unless you are very lucky. So how did Apple beat this game?  Lets look at the smartphone market. Smartphones were hardly new before the iPhone, as were...