In defense of Apple, how many years were there between the first iPod and the iPhone. Than now many between the phone and the iPad. If they release another revolutionary product in the next 2 years, they will be on schedule.
I do agree their software updates are increasingly less ‘Jobs-like’ with bugs, less desirable features, etc.
Good answer! Apple’s been more into iteration since Jobs was brought back, and despite my frequent complaining about it, precipitously abandons updates for older lines in a coherent fashion (dropped G3, then dropped PPC after 10.4.something, dropped Core 2 Duo I think at some recent time) while seeming to rush into new platforms (a process that is in fact deliberative in the quick-changing modern context).
Somehow I think we’ll see a merging of their Mac desktops with AppleTV/iCloud/iTunes/iPod/iPhone) in a high-end way, such as 60, 70, and 80 inch models that cost about the same as such TVs cost now. Smart TVs have been tried, but they are not cheap, and there’s no compelling reason to choose one over another.
Apple hasn’t released a revolutionary product since the Apple II.
Apple is not in the revolutionary product business. It never has been.
Apple has been in the business of identifying emerging markets, and producing cheap reliable stripped down offerings for those markets at inflated priced. Running on hype, it introduces the product to mind numbed Apple zombie masses, who then are convinced against all evidence that Apple invented the product category.
This is why the vast bulk of Apple users are liberal. They use the exact same thinking process for their political thought and their technological thinking.
Every once in a while, I'll follow Apple Maps directions just for the adventure and a laugh.