Apple worries me a bit lately and by lately I mean in the last five six years. It seems Covid did a thing and all innovation and development efforts halted since 2000 or so. The Apple Car project was a huge boondoggle. Meanwhile Xiami delivered and succeeded with the SU7 and now YU7. Apple will finally introduce a foldable phone in late 2026, with specs rumored to be worse than today's Android flagships such as Oppo Find N5, which I use or the new Samsung Fold 7 and Honor Magic V5 etc. And let's keep in mind we are in the 7th iteration of such devices already. Vision Pro might have been technically nice but there is no market for it, let alone for it's price point and hence barely any developers jumped on it.

The iPhone has stagnated so much I got the Oppo after having had every single iPhone since the original one in 2007. I legit cannot list a single notable thing that is new in the 16 Pro vs. the 15 Pro. The only thing that came to mind was the 48mp ultra wide sensor chip married to such a shitty lens that it legit has worse quality than my 15 Pro's old 12mp chip. I tested them back to back.

I've been a huge fanboy for decades but lately absolutely nothing from the company excites me anymore as they just can't deliver. The big new Apple Watch update that was rumored never came. Meanwhile we have so much better looking rounded OLED ones from competitors.