You can't take responsibility for anything you say, can you?
I pointed out nothing about the future? Did you even read a single one of my posts or did you just skip over everything in your rush to "win the argument" without even understanding what the argument was about? The only thing I've heard from you (other than Apple is the most awesome company to ever exist) is PROFITS. But then isn't profits what drove Volkswagen to cheat on its emission tests? I mean being competitive is one thing, but when desire for power, money and control override benevolence to mankind bad things tend to happen.... And yes I have the same problem with US Corporate greed. It's leading this country down a very bad road indeed.
Oh please. Comparing iOS7 with Vista.... iOS versions come out every year. Vista was a bane for years on end. You've still got over 50% of Windows users on XP and it's ancient. Besides, Android hasn't been a perfect example either and that has insulated Apple from some of the shortcomings. Besides, Apple is making their profits on high prices not large market share.
My point all along has been they did the same thing in the 1980s and 1990s and it nearly ruined the company. When your market share runs dry, the profitability suddenly dies quickly and suddenly. Large market share may have slow profits some quarters, but the market itself is still there to sell a new product to. If Apple's share drops below 10%, they are going to start having problems. They are already well below 20% at this stage and 20% was where the Mac originally was profitable. It's when its share dropped below 10% that is started having problems and when it dropped below 6% it was all but dead. The fact Microsoft can have such utterly AWFUL products such as Vista and Windows 8 (and other than Office, it was their only REAL product) and survive without any real stress is a testament that market share MATTERS.
It's a "myth" that Snow Leopard didn't have problems. Like most releases of OS X, it's a virtual disaster when it first came out. It was unusable until about 10.6.4. And Leopard was damn near perfect by its last version (no issues on my PPC server I used up until 2012 with it). The only truly awful versions of OS X were Lion and Yosemite, but even Lion was stable by its last version. Yosemite was/is slow. Ugly is its' true crime, though and that crime continues.
If you want to get down to it, all "most" people really do with these devices is text. Perhaps Apple should concentrate on improving the texting experience if they want to grow because that's all the iZombies of the world really do anymore. They even walk in front of buses they're so busy texting and cause accidents on the freeway.
You don't know what I know about Germany. You act like beer and pretzels is an insult. I'm quite fond of Bavaria. I took years of German in college. I admire most German engineering (Volkswagens' antics being an exception). But politics is another issue. The US may have a corrupt government run by idiots like Ted Cruz, but our freedoms aren't so limited by threat of prison that we can't have red blood in video games or mock a Nazi salute without being thrown into jail. One extreme to another....
So now four speaker sound and variable data rates are innovations?
I give you Surround Sound (been around for 30+ years) and MP3s (AAC as well) have had variable data rates for a long time.
Steve Jobs hated the stylus, BTW. The fact Apple is offering one now shows it's not Steve Jobs' Apple anymore.
No and Apple didn't invent touch-screen computers either. My grandfather's old Buick Reatta had a touch-screen computer control system (a lot like today's cars) clear back in 1988! (so much for Apple's Carplay)
Personally, I thought it was cool at first, but when I actually got to drive it, I realized what a danger touchscreens are to driving or walking because you have to LOOK at them to see WTF you're doing whereas traditional climate and radio controls, etc. can be managed purely by feel. And if that touchscreen died, you'd lose climate control, stereo control, etc. in one package. So what is Apple and others doing today? They're putting touchscreen controls in cars again. It's a deadly mistake. People need to keep their eyes on the road. Then there's the "hacking" issue of computers controlling cars and putting it on the Internet. I'd prefer more traditional driver controls where I don't have to worry about a hacker turning off my brakes.
It doesn't need to be a "hybrid" OS. Apple could have allowed iOS to run separtely in emulation (same as the developer kits) so people could take advantage of iOS Apps and games on the Mac from Day 1. But no no no. That would rob Apple of the option of selling you another device even if you don't need it. Similarly, a reversible Macbook that could function as an iPad would be a great boon for some applications. The same as a separate iPad? No, it would weigh more. But it would mean carrying one device instead of two. But again, why sell one when you can rip people off instead? iPads are already declining in sales and there's no real market for the iPad Pro (OS X would be more useful on that device than iOS and as much as it costs, you might as well offer a Surface Book instead).
A tablet computer is not a phone. You seem to be confusing products once again or trying to change the argument, I'm not sure which.
Why would they need to use ARM? Are you even aware of the recent advances in CPU architecture? Not only does Intel have new lower power real CPUs (instead of these toy ones that are 10 generations behind Intel in power) but carbon nanotubes are the future. If Apple were smart, they'd be working with IBM right now who has the patented tech on functional nanotube technology. Intel's days are numbered if it can't find its own way of working with it because they can't just copy IBM and if IBM won't license it... goodbye Intel.
You don't seem to know much about Samsung products, phones or market share. There you are focused on a single quarter of profits rather than the big picture. It's that myopic view of the world that doomed Apple in the 1990s. It's the same view that can doom them again if they don't look any further ahead than you are doing.
Ah, the "games don't matter" argument. Once again, it's all about "well they make money making sprockets, so why should they bother with cogs". Again, there's more to life than just profits. You can be an accountant and make profit all day long. But it's a flipping BORING way to live.
It's utterly SAD that you think there's an argument to "win". You remind me of people that were in the debate club in high school and college. Everything was an argument to "win" (sadly they weren't as good at is they thought just like you) rather than an opportunity to LEARN. You are like a broken record trying to find just the right words to "win" the argument rather than learn the lesson. I'm not in a horse race here with you. I'm trying to educate you on what matters in life and long term viability and you're playing the part of the good little Apple cheerleader instead. Sorry, but I already own Apple products. I know what Apple is and I know what it was under Jobs and it's not the same company. No matter how much you want to fool yourself, neither Tim Cook or Johnny Ive are Steve Jobs.
"Modernize" shouldn't mean UGLY. Following "flat trends" is FOLLOWING. Apple should be leading, not following. But that's been my point all along. You confuse "profits" with leadership.
