Apple will have Plateaued once other companies stop copying them.

Obvious mail, message, call and Siri benefits aside, how cool would it be to put your phone 3 meters in front of you on a desk, and press a button on your iWatch to take a photo from the phone?

I look forward to this product.

Well said. It is ironic that while Microsoft is blinded by the sun, the receivers are in the dark i.e. no important specifics regarding pricing, battery life, etc.

The iPhone 5 is also evolutionary. It is beautiful, a great update but it is not more than that. However, none of the other smartphone makers have created anything that is more than evolutionary, at best.

We need to see things the way they are. You can not expect Apple to create revolutionary products in all product lines every year. That is crazy! The iPhone born 5 years ago was so big, it is hard to beat that.The “regular” MBP (not the retina one) is already so much ahead of the others, that there simply is no real need for a revolution.

I am not a shareholder. I wish I had bought in the times some of the MDN frequenters bought but I did not. I do not care that much about how Apple is doing as a share. I am sure it will grow and I hope for many more “Apple now worth xx times etc”.

I am a stakeholder. I am a stakeholder because I do not ever want to be forced back to MS or forced into the arms of Google. By forced I mean that Apple has stopped producing “trucks”. I care for OS. OSX is great. I enjoy working with ML. Sure, there are things I dislike, but it is very very usable. No. It rocks! I am just hoping that there will be OS after ML. And after the sequel to ML. I hope there will be an OS XI. Be it in 3 years, in 5 or in 10. I hate what MS has done to Windows with Windows 8. Windows 7 is useable as a “truck”. Not great, not likeable, not cool or anything, but workable. Windows 8 is just the iPad done badly on top of Windows 7.

I can see how Apple’s strategy differs from MS. I like that and I prefer that. But I am also so very concerned that eventually my Mac will be an iOS type of device.

I see it when I open Appstore. You see what you bought. You see how to get. You see how to update. Nowhere do you see how to uninstall. Sure, just delete the program from the Applications folder. But it should be on the Appstore too. Uninstall. It is installed, now uninstall.

That is not the Apple way. that is not the most elegant way to do things and I am worried about such signs.

I know, I am afraid Apple will move my cheese…..

has the guy not given the world enough, are we that greedy?!

it is amazing to me how so many humans are sick, neurotic. as a race we seem to love success but take as much Schadenfreude in seeing companies fail shortly after, as if we own shares in the competition. it is as sick as IPOs that dilute all products/services, that we take pleasure in breaking firms apart in jealousy & greed.

it is especially sad when firms like Apple deserve much better, when it is the only firm in the black america has to show off to the world and the only american firm that is loved by the world.

not to mention, the irony of wanting to see it fail when apple is the only co. giving the world products they need or want and no matter how innovative it is or not post-steve so far, it still gives us the best examples of craftsmanship, perfection, precision, smoothness etc. their products still work the best and no one matches their ubiquity, seamlessness, integration, ease, service satisfaction, quality etc.

is it not ironic how apple has to always invent new stuff whilst we accept the competition to sleep and/or produce flimsy products?!

give apple a break to breathe.
none of us complainers would ever amount to conceiving, let alone creating a single product worthy of changing society. apple has created 7 life-changing products, not just 1!! and apparently a new such category is coming up this xmas ; ) none of us is successful or rich as apple, yet we all proclaim we know better how to fix apple when it has no problems and we are just big talkers who do not walk?!

let’s shut up and trust Apple for peep’s sake – is it not the only firm that has proven itself more than any other in human history?! it has risen twice like a phoenix from the brink. both times thanks to steve jobs. since iSteve Forbes let apple fall from 5 to 26th in rank for innovation but who cares, Apple is 100+ times worthier in value than little Forbes who only talks but never walks the talk and Tim Cook did raise apple’s value 79% since iSteve, plus Apple does have new innovative products up its sleeves still.

we can not expect apple to invent new product or product categories each year. we can expect it realistically to improve products each year.

let’s be happy with what we have. let’s not be greedy on so many levels. it’s unrealistic and unfair and detrimental and sick.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/10/04/using-capital-expenditures-to-predict-apples-share-price/

In particular take a look at the last graph. $1200++/share in the next year or two seems possible.

Mixed metaphors. Whatever.

“They next big thing needs to be software and not hardware as iOS is getting tired and OSX appears to also be getting stale.”

Even if your statement were true, the “hardware plateau” and “software fatigue” are having no effect whatsoever on sales. Read Andy Zaky’s brilliant post at Bullish Cross. Apple has the most popular products in the largest emerging technology markets. The comments about the company falling behind the curve and/or losing its way are just noise.