rudy
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If we keep saying this it must be true.
Except that what is there left to innovate? If it wasn't for battery degradation there wouldn't be a need to buy new phones (any of them) for 3-4 years. We have been in a technology boom since the 80's, it had to stop sometime. Am I the only one who hasn't noticed a huge shift to services from these tech companies? Shirley not. We have gaming PCs that can last 5, 6, 7 years. We have TV manufactures trying to push 4k and 8k when the content just isn't there nor is the hardware adopted in mass to support it.
Apple is better positioned as a tech company than Samsung or any other competitor because of iTunes and all that comes with it. A good chunk of their user base has purchased movies, music, etc or just do not want to change. There isn't anything "innovative" over at Android to make it enticing to repurchase content. Unless you like bloated software with no update support like most on here... but apple.
Most of the things you are describing are not innovation, they are incremental improvements or market penetration. There is a ton of work that can be done on phones. And to be fair most of it isn't a question of if it can be done, it is if it can be done easy enough and user-friendly enough and cheap enough. Apple has a ton of power in that field. They are one of only 2 companies that can snap their fingers and make something universal in the phone world and bring mass production to high enough levels to bring prices down. Look at things like digital payments and fingerprint reader, those were on android phones long before Apple and they were on computers long before that, the innovation was already done, but only Apple could make the decision to use it and therefore make it universal, and that is when people think the innovation happened because that's when the average soccer mom can actually take advantage of the technology and therefore justify investing in it, usually in the form of a new phone. There is plenty more to do in this area, phones can completely replace laptops and many desktops, they can keep taking better pictures, especailly in low light or other non ideal scenarios, more phones can start to support a stylus, assistants can get way way better, the phone can better interface with smart homes, battery life, charging rate, lots of things need improvement.