Which opinion shows you really do not have a clue about what you are talking about. You're wrong. You don't have any idea about what innovation is. It is obvious you don't use the products and don't experience how they work together which is one of the greatest innovations Apple has created that no one else has matched. Every other company's ecosystem is a kludge in comparison, dependent on third-party apps to get a poor simulation of what Apple does.
What you claim is a "me too" company is when Apple does it, it actually works, and is not a kludge that people have to assemble themselves from disparate parts and apps from multiple sources which works across all of Apple's devices, not just a selected few. A good example is that Apple's current iOS version 8.4.1 is installed on 92.5% of all iOS devices in the wild just one year after it was released. . . and they all will connect back with hand-off to Mac OS X. Android? Only 15.5% of Android users are on Android 5 Lollipop. When you add Android 4.4 Kitkat, it only rises to 54.8%, almost two years after Kitkat was released.
Show me a tech company that doesn't have a leftward tilt. . . it's hard to find one that doesn't have one, unfortunately.
Keep thinking that. You can get anything an Apple does for a lot less somewhere else.
Just Works?
Objective-C? Their software is chained to a programming language from the 1980’s,
XCode? their dev environment? Buggy as hell
iTunes? how much more crap can they add to it.
iPhone? can’t change the resolution when taking pictures.
They have everything locked down pretty well so it works better than most but my old Windows Phone still worked better but had no apps. In particular Here Maps. When I got an iPhone I had to also get a GPS.
Now they want all your health information.
What do they do that nobody else does?