We're staying away from the subject, which is
"Refined and spacious 12GB video games utilizing multiple CPU and GPU cores for the best HD experience possible with innovative and comfortable controls are apparently no match againts the magic of the iPad and iPhone, we should all just toss our hardware away, join the Apple Master Race and start playing Angry Birds and Paper Toss - REAL games.".
To be fair there are quite a few iOS games that do have some pretty good graphics and the specs on Apple products aren't that bad, they just love holding them back so people are forced to buy a model with better specs in a couple of months.
EDIT: Guild, Apple's hardware sells well, but definatelly not because of its gaming capabilities. It sells well because of numerous reasons:
1. Apple products are a fad.
2. iPhone is a fad, but I suppose that the latest ones are actually good smartphones.
3. iPad is actually a good tablet.
Neither of the iOS devices sells "because it's a good gaming platform" - they're in a different industry sector and sell themselves on their own merit.
Well obviously but they sell, and that's what companies want. What Apple has done is created an incredible amount of brand loyalty that carries over. It makes iPhone owners exclusively buy iPads and Macbooks instead of the large amounts of alternatives, even when the Apple products are more expensive. If Sony created this with, say, making their PS3/Vita owners wanting Sony TVs and other Sony electronics, it'd be like a kid come true.
Plus nowadays gaming platformers are drifting a lot towards being multifunctional, much like Apple products. It's easy to think of it as this way: Apple products are (phones/tablets/portable media devices) that focus on features with some gaming while (3DS/Vita) are products that focus on gaming with some other features. Like I doubt anyone bought a 3DS or a Vita for Netflix or web browsing, but I'm sure most 3DS and Vita owners have used one or the other.
It wouldn't surprise me though if a lot of people start looking for a device that isn't advertised as a dedicated gaming device like the 3DS or Vita but a multipurpose device that's a portable media device, not a "handheld".