Apple Innovation Debate
This cluster centers on discussions questioning whether Apple continues to innovate or has stagnated post-Steve Jobs, relying on marketing, incremental improvements, and hits like the iPhone instead of revolutionary products. Users debate Apple's strategy of perfecting existing trends versus creating new markets and its future relevance.
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does apple still innovate anymore or just follow trends that are already on their way out?
Apples products are still the best on the market, but if they keep this up; they will sooner or later become irrelevant.
Apple notoriously hinders it's own potential so it doesn't cannibalize it's own market share. They have no incentive to turn off the iPhone faucet, so why would they make a product that devours smartphones?
Can't Apple throw more money at revolutionary stuff rather than at evolutionary stuff that already works just fine?
That's apples playbook even today, they don't invent new technology, rather time it perfectly to start using it.
Apple have been going at a clip these past few years creating, scaling and tweaking a few massive products - ipods, itunes, iphone & ipads while outpacing competition with macs and still carrying a few fizzles (apple servers, apple tv...) and a few lower visibility but fairly important products (iwork, ilife..).I think they just don't have the capacity to do more big things right now. When/if iOS gets put on medium heat like OSX is/was, then maybe we they'll try this. It's not really much
It's honestly a game of innovate or catch up. It's not like Apple is unique in this...
The iPhone is a once-in-a-generation product. Virtually no company ever creates a product this successful. Why are you treating that level of success as if it’s the new norm that Apple must repeatedly reach in order to keep up?What happens if they don’t catch the next wave? In that case, they will still be wildly successful. They’ve already had the iPad, which is the clear winner in the tablet market. They’ve already had the Apple Watch, which is the clear winner in the smartwatch mark
Even Apple can't innovate anymore, they coast on prestige alone.
Apple never invented anything. They always took something that already was nichely popular (Nokia's smartphones, Creative's MP3 players, PCs), then improved upon those things just enough to make them palatable to the masses, logo included. It's not a mystery why they've recently invested heavily in AR and electric transportation: these are two newish hardware things that still badly need to be improved upon. Unfortunately, all the money in the world cannot replace Steve Job&#