I think we should give credit where credit is due - Apple has "solved" three form factors: - the laptop - the tower workstation - the smartphone Maybe we sh

I think we should give credit where credit is due - Apple has "solved" three form factors: - the laptop - the tower workstation - the smartphone Maybe we should use something other than laptops ... maybe there is an as-yet-unforeseen device that our computing work should shift to. Until such time, we use laptops, and apple solved the laptop with the macbook air. There's nowhere to go from here but spec improvements. That's why they are desperately adding weirdo things like the touchbar - the form factor has been solved. Same with tower workstations. You're not going to beat the cheesegrater mac pro. All you can do is bump the specs. This is a good thing - they solved that form factor. Unfortunately Apple has other priorities than churning out low volume, non-sexy updates to an under-the-desk device. Finally, the smartphone: Apple solved that form factor with the iphone. Everything since then is really just an iphone with different sizes and different little details. They are all just monolithic touchscreen slabs. Maybe there is some new form factor waiting to be discovered, but that's a new product category - that would be real innovation and would be a jump just like the jump from dumbphones to smartphones. But for now, what we have are smartphones and they are all really just iphones - because the problem has been solved.