This needs [2005] in the title.

Prescient timing in the article: "If it's not Google that finally subverts the power structure of the industry, then it'll be someone else...eventually."

Just at that time of publication (Nov 2005), Apple worked intensively on the first iOS device (iPhone, first shown 14 months later).

John was right - but even he didn't dare to dream that his favorite company (Apple) is the one that eventually subverted the power structure.