As a developer, I was at least impressed after watching this conference for developers.
I've never been as eager to start building stuff for this platform as now. Wow.
I love how they attacked Android at its home arena -- customizability. The best part is that they get none of the Android baggage with that in terms of old operating systems on their devices, so that you can actually
do these things almost right from the start too. The pretty phones will also stay around. So it's cool that Apple aren't doing this at the cost of switching to Samsung's favorite material: plastic.
Seriously, my point isn't to troll. It's that the iOS platform is soon about to get
much more complete with none of that crap, so that a user doesn't necessarily have to choose anymore. "Oh, should I pick something that looks nice or should I pick the one that lets me customize the OS with apps?" No more.
I don't even care if that needed "innovations" to happen or not. The point is that iOS is becoming a no-compromises platform and that will be more important than innovations at least for as long as it isn't one.
I wonder how Xamarin feels today after the Swift announcement though.

Sure, they support other platforms too, but that toolset was a lot about lowering the Objective-C barrier.