Look out Apple and Samsung.

[Grieve]

The main point is that Apple came up with 2 innovated products based on mobility that was far beyond the competitions expectations. Those day's are over.

Based on what? Do you know for sure they are not going to release something way beyond anyone's expectations this year or next year?

And to say they only came up with those two things is pretty narrow sighted. What about the MacBook Air, that every PC manufacturer is now copying? What about the iPod, that no-one has been able to compete with even 10 years later? What about Apple Stores, that Microsoft and Samsung are now copying? Etc, etc.

I'm not saying that some sort of iWatch product will not be a good product. But I think they will likely be behind, because Apple is now becoming the dinosaur (moving slow).

Again, based on what? They don't release stuff until it's ready (maps excepted), and they have a ridiculous level of secrecy. You don't know what they are working on. Seven years between iPod and iPhone. Three years between iPhone and iPad. It's only been 3 years since the iPad - bit soon to say they have run out of ideas.

The iwatch concept, aside from being a fashion disaster in waiting, is kind of silly because it assumes that smaller is better. The success of larger smartphones recently seems to indicate that there is a floor in the size of useful displays.

An iphone display is too small, what fucking use is a display on a watch going to have?

This is the great irony to me. Ever since those massive Motorola "mobile" phones in the 80s, evolving technology has been used to continuously make cellphones smaller and lighter. The ironic part is thatApple made the first cellphone with a decent webbrowser, the power and screen to watch quality video, and an app store that spawned zillions of games. And now those three things have suddenly reversed the trend so that people now want bigger screens to web-browse, game, and watch movies on. While Apple keeps focusing on thinner and lighter.

I still think the "phablet" craze is overblown. I use my iPad mini for stuff I need a bigger screen for. I don't want to carry around a phone I can barely hold in one hand.

As for the watch, the idea is that it saves you from having to take the phone out of your pocket when you don't need to. Check messages, see if you have e-mails, plus biometric sensors to monitor activity, heartbeat, etc. It's not for playing games or watching movies on.

And as for the fashion disaster, Apple did just hire Yves St Laurent CEO Paul Deneve...