Sure. How many do you want?
Here's a few from the iPhone:
Retina display
External antenna with intelligent switcing
App Store
Siri
Unified notification server
iCloud
Passbook
Only if the home screen is the only feature you use on your phone.
Only if you willfully ignore all the changes.
Only if you define innovation arbitrarily to fit your argument.
And they've done that several times since the iPhone. Not sure your point here.
Again, pretending all the innovation and changes that Apple has made across their product lines since 2007 didn't happen isn't a real argument.
So basically you consider mostly standard features on other smartphones as somehow uniquely innovative to only Apple products?
Retina display - not a bad touch but hardly innovative. Other phone makers were increasing screen resolution so it made sense to keep up with them.
Improved antenna- it's not innovation it's fixing a problem. Apple tried denying there was an issue and only when that line didn't work did they create a better antenna system. Other smartphones had better reception before the iPhone and after the iPhone.
App Store- I'll give you this as a past innovation because it popularized the idea of downloading apps and programs right onto a phone. Although Apple wasn't the first to try this, they just made it popular. And that introduction was years ago, now every smartphone brand has an "app store."
Siri - A cool feature for sure and built on existing technology. Is it innovative? Not really although it is a vast improvement on earlier voice activated software. Apple was hardly the first to introduce this concept.
Unified notification server - I think you're referring to getting notifications of messages, calls, app updates, emails all in a central location on the phone. If so other companies were doing it well before Apple, it's considered standard fare on nearly all smartphones. And if you're referring to iCloud syncing between devices and push notifications, well other phones did that before too and now most do.
iCloud- Is it innovative? It was a fresh take on cloud storage but again other companies were there first. We could say the implementation of the iCloud is innovative but it's more progressive than innovative.
Passbook - A cool feature but outdated as many other phones ship with NFC capabilities and were working on NFC "passbooks" before Apple ever released a scan the screen style system.
So again I ask for where is the actual innovation? You point out the iPhone the most and yet we see the same basic design since 2007. Nothing wrong with not fixing what's not broke, but that's not innovation, that's just not risking losing the marketshare with taking risks on new designs. Adding software features isn't reallly innovative, especially when some features are already on other devices. Surely you remember when Apple proudly announced picture messaging and group messaging on the second iPhone (which dumbphones were doing years before the iPhone was a thought).
Sure in the eyes of the beholder these features seem innovative and that's ok. The real issue I have here is that most of these "innovations" are old in tech time, so where is the innovation lately?
