The blog is some pretty bad reporting with some pretty bad assumptions.
Microsoft and Intel would respond to the above blog with:
"Reports of my death have been highly exaggerated."
This line: "in 2010 it passed Microsoft to become the world???s largest tech company", relating to Apple becoming the largest tech company is simply false.
Apple did take over the top spot when it comes to "market capitalization", but that's not the same as being the largest technology company. That would still be Microsoft, by a long shot with it's many products and services, and with its reach into every type of service and every type of product and every type of software. Apple can't even come close.
Now, when it comes to Microsoft and Intel being left behind in the new mobile marketplace, well, those 2 companies are already gearing up to compete effectively, and the author of the piece above is being hyperbolic about the new tech revolution leaving those 2 giants behind. Intel is already developing for the mobile market and Microsoft has already entered that market, and in fact, has some very good competition against it's rivals in that mobile space. The mobile marketplace is basically still in its infancy, and to already declare who the winners and losers are is to be less than honest or very nearsighted.
In about one or two years, the blog and the writer above, will have been proven to be completely out of touch with the way things evolve in the tech world.
