Please tell me or list companies that are "Pushing hardware" every single year in the cell phone industry? I would be interested in reading that. Hardware being rushed? How so? What hardware is being "Rushed" if you were referring to Apple? What has been abandoned? You have a lot of open ended remarks in your posts that don't explain much.
Second, you mentioned if Apple did a new iPhone every 18 months to two years, we would have better iPhones. Even if your theory was correct, you can't expect cell phones to have a groundbreaking features or technology that may not be ready for implementation. Cell phones take years of testing before the ready for development. Apple was likely working on the iPhone 7 when the iPhone 5s was released.
Tim Cook was quoted by the time a new product is released, Apple is already on development/working on a product two generations ahead of the current product. So technically, that would be a debunk your theory that Apple would be releasing better iPhones. It's just Apple is choosing to use certain technology versus what other manufacturers are releasing and we all know Apple is slower at releasing "Newer" features, but what the iPhone does, it does it well.
First off, settle down. You do know this is a Rumors site on the internet and not life and death, right?
The list of companies pushing hardware every single year leads off with Apple and Samsung... Do we not get new flagship smartphones every single year? I'm not sure why that was a question. Go down the line of top cellphone manufacturers if you must. You seem like a source guy? If you want the yearly iPhone or Galaxy, you can even head over to the manufacturer or carrier and sign up to get it on schedule! Surely, that qualifies as "every single year" to you. Or have I misinterpreted "yearly"?
There was considerable market pressure to get Sony to join the club along with LG, HTC, and others. Sony, at the very least, backed down at the very thought of the idea. They said 'no, you will get a handset when it's darn good and ready'. I admire that. A company only releasing a product at its completion? Novel, I say. Yes, you must be a source guy.
What has been abandoned? Wha..? Since you seem to be new around these parts, how about the white iPhone 4 for starters? Oh my word, oh are there sources. That was kind of a big deal. Apple presents the new iPhone 4, and then has to backtrack not once, but twice, with sources, that the white color just isn't ready. How many other things did we have rumored, which never saw the light of day? A search reveals seemingly limitless possibilities.
The headphone jack being abandoned in the 7 will forever be an irritant. It's then included in the new MacBooks (retina and Pro) and iPads... because somehow it's less advanced on a phone? The device in our pocket we carry around the most, which is supposed to do everything? Which is the same design as the 6S, no thinner, because thin-- wait, no, water-resistant-improvements were more important. Height, width, depth (can't say thinness) are all exactly the same across 6S/7 & 6S+/7+, only weight marginally changed, and yes, my goodness, source requirement fulfilled. Apple abandoned it not because it was old, dated, didn't work, they needed internal space (hell, they left mic port holes are fake where the 3.5mm jack was), no they abandoned it because they couldn't get the jack to resist water penetration, my friend.
You can bet this little gem of a patent, sourced, is what those fake port-hole-speaker-vent-things at the bottom left of your phone are planned for. I can see it. The next (and final) port on the phone is certainly going under scrutiny. You buy a $2700 MacBook Pro, and a $1000 iPhone 7+, and neither one comes with the cable to connect it to the other (USB-C to Lightning)? Not a stupid mistake.
Finally, you can't tell me that all other products haven't taken a back seat to the iPhone team. Even OS X folks were pulled to iOS, sourced, when Scott Forstall was ousted and the Jony Ive iOS makeover was on the horizon. There was not a chance Apple would let the iPhone or iOS miss the beloved yearly release schedule. They sacrificed the Mac for the iPhone in that instance; no question.
Tell me, if Apple is working 2 years ahead (Steve actually was quoted in as saying there was a 4 year product pipeline set up from 2011; Tim's Apple is is only half as ahead) - then I am curious to know how the new MacBook Pros have been so troublesome, how the iPhone 6+ bent like a cheap spoon (touch-disease apparent across the 6-series), and the desktop got forgotten, all seemingly with no one caring until they all became problems? The only legit, surprise, out-of-nowhere, leak-free announcement was the Retina MacBook in 2015. Kind of lines up with that 4-year pipeline to launch the USB-C party.
I could digress or continue, but I'm not sure I'd be answering anything that you couldn't just find out for yourself with a little effort.
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