I think the article... if you can call it that, is laughable. Perhaps I don't understand her point, or am misunderstanding her view. So, because Apple innovated where others didn't, because they built product that were easy to use and it "stole" business away from other companies who were NOT providing customers with what they wanted (or didn't know they wanted until it came along) this somehow makes Apple an evil empire seeking to dominate the universe? I think it is a really bad comparison to try and drive some ridiculous business 101 point home. So when people started buying Toyotas, Datsuns, and Hondas back in the late 70s because Detroit didn't make anything worth a damn... that makes them evil? No. It's business. Innovate or get out of the way. Provide a good or service better than some one else or die. I really don't see the point of this article.

If anything, the only comparison I could see to Apple being the Death Star is the article that wasn't written: Apple runs the risk of being a big target that a small group of scrappy rebels could ruin with a pair of well placed proton torpedos.