Apple seems to have this strange desire to prove to people how creative they are. I feel like Apple showed their creativity in the past primarily through their beautiful merger of design and function. They slowly started drifting away from that and it seems they had less and less success with the pros. Specifically the Mac Pro's. After the towers and they went to the garbage can have they really knocked it out of the park in the mass pro community? They have made impressive machines but are geared way more towards a smaller niche pro market rather than the mass pro market. Apple's brilliance was hardware and software and then some great marketing in the Think Different era showing there was more depth then flashing lights. The Think Different posters really made you think what YOU could do, not what can Apple do. Looking at the various posters of people from all sorts of fields. They are posters you would want to hang up on your wall or even in your office. Inspiring people being used to inspire you. When has Apple tried to inspire you with their marketing? I feel we are seeing more Apple patting themselves on the back telling us how great they are, how impressed Mother Nature is with them.
That all being said I do appreciate the practical physical creations, I just care less when Apple is show casing how they did it as basically another ad for themselves.