I think he was trying to convey his disappointment at Apple for lack of innovation after Steve Jobs. And we all very well know that. To be honest, Apple Watch has not been that appreciated beyond the apple fan base and the apple paid analysts.
I admit to being part of the Apple fan base, and I do love my Apple watch. I don't quite understand, however, why being an Apple fan undermines my opinion of the watch, or makes it less valid than if I had never owned an Apple product. But if I were to find a person who had never owned an Apple product until the watch and loved it...would that alter your opinion? I doubt it.
This is the issue I have with those who always take Apple to task for a lack of "innovation"--which critics of Apple have bene doing from the start. Apple, it can rightly be said, didn't invent anything utterly new. The computer mouse and the touch screen phone, for example, were around before Apple introduced them. But then, the engineering view of Apple has always missed the point in its accusations that products like the Mac and iPhone were lacking in innovation.
It's not about producing something that's utterly new and never been done before. Apple's innovation has always been in seeing what could be done with the existing innovation that no one else has done with it. And in that, I'd argue, they're still in the lead. If they're failing, however, to come out with products that explode on the scene and change the world...well, Jobs, himself, pointed out that one is "lucky to have worked on even one such product in a lifetime..." '
Anyone who expects Apple to produce such products yearly is going to be perpetually disappointed. And that isn't Apple's fault or lack of innovation. It is the fault of the one holding them to such impossible standards.
