[adorno]

Patent trolls getting their just desserts. Stop suing the competition and get back to what got you there: innovation!

What innovation are you talking about?

Apple basically stops innovating after the iPhone was introduced back in 2007. What consumers continued to get was the same basic iPhone tech with slight increments in features with each new release.

As far as technology is concerned, the competition surpassed Apple's devices a couple of years ago, and it's Apple that is trying to keep up. Apple's only hope to stay competitive, is to continue the perception that they offer a premium device, and they way they do that is by keeping prices up. They could easily sell a lot more iPHones by lowering prices, and still make good profits with them. But, NO!!!, the premium perception is what they're shooting for.

Marketshare loss will eventually be the downfall of Apple, and that increase in marketshare by Windows Phones and Android, will have people noticing that they don't have to pay premium prices to get a great smartphone that can work with any cell-plan provider. When people start realizing that they don't really need an iPHone, Apple's marketshare will start to dwindle even more, to the point that Windows Phones will be number 2 in the world, with Android still enjoying #1 status for a while.

Apple is somewhat in the same position that RIM was at several years ago, and they didn't see the market start moving away from them until it was too late.

[Dexter Morgan]

My company bought me my first Apple product this year, the Iphone 5. It’s a nice piece of hardware, but the transition into their ecosystem (icloud, itunes, etc.) takes too long for people like me who want to plug and play.

I want to attach my phone to my computer, open my phone folder, and drag and drop my files into my phone. I don’t want to go through a separate program that converts my files, then transfers them. Drag and drop...it should be that simple.

I still have 1 song that will not transfer to my iphone, even though the rest of the album transferred. At the very least they could give me a two-touch option to assign a song as my wife’s ring tone. Why, in 2013, do I still have to use the same lame factory ringtones that I used 12 years ago on my ham-radio phone?

I hate using Apple synth-guitar when I know I could be using Jimmi Hendrix on Android or Windows.

/rant

[dfwgator]

Apple basically stops innovating after the iPhone was introduced back in 2007. What consumers continued to get was the same basic iPhone tech with slight increments in features with each new release.

Reminds me of this Bloom County cartoon:

[14erClimb]

Apple basically stops innovating after the iPhone was introduced back in 2007

That's exactly what I'm talking about. Since then, they've dared to sue anybody that makes a "rounded rectangle" device. Most notably Samsung.