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When was the last time Apple release a new product? By new I mean not an iteration of previous ones?

Animats 7y ago
The whole consumer electronics industry is stuck. Everyone has a phone. PC sales are flat and mostly to business. (Desktop PCs are now like commercial trucks. Every business uses them, but nobody gets excited about them. They're expected to last a long time and have low operating cost.) Tablets were a niche. 3D TV was a total flop. VR headsets are a niche. IoT turned out to be mostly voice terminals for services. No new must-have product is in sight.
- silversconfused 7y ago
  Getting the interface out of your hands along with some portable system of trust would shake things up a bit.
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y ago
  And everything that will be invented has been invented. I'm going to guess that something in the future will be revolutionary. It might just be a while. Humans went millennia without electricity, and then everything kinda shot up- I wouldn't be surprised if humanity takes another step up the QoL stairs in a couple hundred years.
  - Animats 7y ago
    But not soon enough to keep the factories in Shenzhen and the sales at the Apple store going. If it's going to be the Next Big Thing in the next three years, it has to be in prototype now.
Steko 7y ago
Watch, Airpods, Homepod, Pencil, credit card next month, many services including Apple Pay.
- shrimp_emoji 7y ago
  AirPods are pretty great, and conveniently they work on Android phones. :3 My generation may be consigned to socioeconomical bleakness, but the AirPods were a win, Tim. <3
- julienreszka 7y ago
  How are those new products. Like I said those are just iterations of old ones.
  - saagarjha 7y ago
    None of those things existed five years ago.
    - julienreszka 7y ago
      They did
      - saagarjha 7y ago
        Those were launched in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2015, 2019, and 2014, respectively.
        julienreszka 7y ago
        Equivalent products existed before
  - crooked-v 7y ago
    By that standard, Apple has never released a new product. After all, the iPhone was "just" an iteration on features that already existed in various previous devices.

The whole consumer electronics industry is stuck. Everyone has a phone. PC sales are flat and mostly to business. (Desktop PCs are now like commercial trucks. Every business uses them, but nobody gets excited about them. They're expected to last a long time and have low operating cost.) Tablets were a niche. 3D TV was a total flop. VR headsets are a niche. IoT turned out to be mostly voice terminals for services. No new must-have product is in sight.

silversconfused 7y ago
Getting the interface out of your hands along with some portable system of trust would shake things up a bit.
HeWhoLurksLate 7y ago
And everything that will be invented has been invented. I'm going to guess that something in the future will be revolutionary. It might just be a while. Humans went millennia without electricity, and then everything kinda shot up- I wouldn't be surprised if humanity takes another step up the QoL stairs in a couple hundred years.
- Animats 7y ago
  But not soon enough to keep the factories in Shenzhen and the sales at the Apple store going. If it's going to be the Next Big Thing in the next three years, it has to be in prototype now.

Steko 7y ago

Watch, Airpods, Homepod, Pencil, credit card next month, many services including Apple Pay.

shrimp_emoji 7y ago
AirPods are pretty great, and conveniently they work on Android phones. :3 My generation may be consigned to socioeconomical bleakness, but the AirPods were a win, Tim. <3
julienreszka 7y ago
How are those new products. Like I said those are just iterations of old ones.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  None of those things existed five years ago.
  - julienreszka 7y ago
    They did
    - saagarjha 7y ago
      Those were launched in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2015, 2019, and 2014, respectively.
      - julienreszka 7y ago
        Equivalent products existed before
- crooked-v 7y ago
  By that standard, Apple has never released a new product. After all, the iPhone was "just" an iteration on features that already existed in various previous devices.