I didn't say anything about "innovative", but since you brought it up, had Apple brought out things like the AppleTV app store and PCI GPU support over TB when they (Apple) first started talking about such things themselves, they would have been regarded as extremely innovative. Now they are just long over due. (Just as a few examples.)
All of which still proves the point being made by many on this thread that current Apple management is starting to look strategically unfocused. No doubt Cook is great at managing day to day operations, but in terms of strategic innovation leadership he is starting to look very Ballmer like. Some people can see that coming now. A few folks (I was NOT one of them) saw it coming some time ago. From the comments here, it's obvious that some of you won't be able to see what is happening until it's history.
You said "What a lot of people would like to see is Apple at least follow through on some basic innovations that they should be able to handle with ease.
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IMO the changes to iOS and OS X have been moving forward well. More usability. I agree on the App Store going to the ATV, I am surprised that the still treat that product as a toy, maybe this year
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Can they just promise to fix the stuff that's out there first? I never had an iPhone crash like it has till this year. My macbook pro just crashes and restarts out of the blue sometimes. I used to have everything mac and now I'm finding myself looking elsewhere for products cause apple's stuff doesn't really stand out as much as it used to. Five years ago, most things worked really well right out of the box and updates were pretty solid. Now they have to pull updates cause of problems, iCloud is ok, but not great. Just make what you have now great again please!!!
Fair points, but if your issues are an Apple bug, then wont everyone have the same issues? I have an rMBP, 6+, iPad Air, they all operate well, I cannot recall the last crash and reboot. I have the odd app that played up, the dev fixed that. Im not cancelling your post but occurrences that you have are due to some issue, but I'd say not a default Apple bug.