Apple has been stagnant since Steve Jobs died. His momentum keeps the company moving forward, but they haven't had a fresh idea since he passed.
iPhone
no disk drive
UNIX-based OS goes mainstream
first mainstream OS with a GUI
iMac - making PC's 'friendly'
iTunes - made it cool to pay for music again
To name a few.
And iPhone is built on top of years of speculation and foundational change in material and wireless infrastructure.
But the point is that apple now no longer needs to grow like jobs era. And for all good will, I see no chance for jobs to pull out new things equally big as iPhone anyway. But some can believe that regardless.
What are you crediting Jobs with? What does this mean? It seems like your list fell apart after the first 3 concrete things you listed, the rest are just random things you like about Apple.
Of course the programming and design were done by the software teams under Avie Tevanian, first at NeXT and later at Apple.
Though original Mac, LaserWriter, and iPad are also big on my list.
The Apple Watch is the world's most popular watch.
AirPods have exploded in popularity among youth as a status symbol.
Both are selling relatively well, even if you may think they're inferior products.
[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/02/apple-watch-1q19-market...
I guess AirPods work for some, but I wouldn’t touch them.
The Butterly keyboard is the only thing I can think is genuinely, objectively, "bad", due to the reliability issues, but it's hard to say it taints the whole MacBook Pro. I use one everyday, have since they were released, and it's a great laptop for me.
Either way, I'm mostly commenting on the ever-popular and lazy comment that equates Apple's success solely to marketing. Apple's products are successful because they're good products, marketed well. Yes, they're marketed well, but that marketing is only effective because the products being marketed are genuinely "good".
It’s some of the newer models that strip off functionality for aesthetics , or at least slimness at any and all costs, that turn many of us away.
No thanks.
Regular corded earbuds are a tolerable pocket size alternative to a set of studio cans, but that’s as far as I would go. I miss the old Walkman style headsets that had decent size drivers, but still fit into a backpack or jacket pocket.
Downvoters gonna downvote, I guess.
That's a lot of nobodies.
(compared to Mac $5.8B, iPad $5.0B)
I use a smartwatch and as a result my phone stays in my pocket a lot more.
In Job's era that revenue was almost 0%. Now it's 21%.