While I'm desperately hoping I'm just not patient enough and great things are on their way down that famous pipeline, I'm getting just a little uneasy about Apple exclusively following the money trail lately under Cook et al. Or are they slowly becoming a rudderless entity floating in a sea of confusion and indecision?
While they appear to be striving to be number One in innovation in all of their pursued areas of interest, the reality currently has them trailing in certain areas. What happened to the mantra of doing a select few things really well?
All I want is a great computer with the latest components and connectivity options, that just works without too many hiccups with the integrated software and applications, but I feel that at the rate Apple is innovating in that arena lately (or even merely updating current lines like the MacPro, Mini or even their Airport routers), sometime in the future I may have to sadly look for my computing needs elsewhere.
Letting the above mentioned lines languish, literally for years, reinforces my belief that great computing experiences are no longer at the top of Apple's priorities, or even in their mission statement, but have given way to maximizing ROI for the shareholders ahead of all else, which is a definite departure from the 'Steve' years, and without doubt a recipe for long-term decline.
That would be a sad future for a once great company.