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I disagree. Jobs gave us iTunes, iPod, iPhone. These were revolutionary devices IMO. Sure MP3 players existed before, but the customer experience made me feel, “wow I need this!”

I haven’t felt that way in a while. There’s nothing really new that apple is doing at the moment. Thinner devices that’s im going to wrap in a case are great. A higher resolution is nice. Deeper blacks and face recognition instead of passwords? Okay cool. Certainly not worth $1000 to me.

Don’t get me started about the MacBook Pro. Some how apple managed to take a very fine machine and in 2016 decided, “You know what? Let’s just take a massive dump on this thing and add a Touch Bar.”

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A12X/T2/W1 SOCs, Secure Enclave, FaceID, Apple Watch ECG, HomePod spatial detection, Beats1 Radio, Handoff/Continuity, Apple Pay, Apple Maps 3D.

Plenty of real innovation going on.

All these things are cool but that’s about it. Sure you can call this innovation, but Apple raised the bar high enough where Apple Pay or Apple Maps isn’t something that would make me go out and drop $1000 on a device.

HomePod isn’t a great device, at least the last generation that we bought. I use Samsung Pay and have no need for Apple Pay. I don’t wear a watch because I have a phone that tells me the time among other things.

Again, I’m not crapping on the engineers who worked these things, but these tiny products are nothing compared to the paradigm shifts of iTunes, the iPhone, etc.

Well you are fed with the wow products since iTunes, do you think you'll be impressed by apple watch?

No, but was apple watch less an achievement than iTunes? No.

AirPods? Face ID?

shitty headphones that are "truly" wireless don't mean a thing to me. have you heard the bass on those things? awful. i'm a basshead, we exist. apple wants us to buy something else. siri is crap and doesn't recognize my accent so fuck everything about even trying to use siri through the airpods to control my device. meanwhile my rha ma 750 connects just fine to assistant on my pixel

Face ID? i like the idea of my hands controlling something. Face ID with Touch ID should have been a no brainer. different usecases! Face ID doesn't work when the phone is on my desk and i just want to quickly fire off an action like changing music- i HAVE to show the phone my face - which quickly changes the dynamics of how i feel about my device(goes from boss-employee to the other way around)

sorry but i guess i'm in the small percentage of people that apple designers just flat out ignore coz they can

A shitty phone that had a true touchscreen didn’t mean a lot to many people in 2007, either

> i'm a basshead, we exist. apple wants us to buy something else

I have a small intertragic knotch [1]. It’s the part of the ear AirPods (and iPod headphones) latch onto. These products—physically—don’t work for me.

That doesn’t mean I can’t recognise their brilliance. (Nor why my market segment is reasonably ignored.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertragic_notch

Expecting the AirPods to be made for "bassheads" is like expecting the Toyota Camry to be a manual transmission two door hot hatch with 400 hp. If you want specialty headphones you need to buy specialty headphones.

Face ID is really good. From the way you describe it, I don't think you've actually used it, because the issues you cite don't really exist.

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