> maybe it used to be how apple did things, but it is most certainly not how apple does things now. look at their most recent new product line - the iPad. it wa

> maybe it used to be how apple did things, but it is most certainly not how apple does things now. look at their most recent new product line - the iPad. it was not a device that needed iterating on, as evidenced by the iPad2 being virtually the same thing. What about the iPhone? Launched as a 2G/2.5G (EDGE) only device, no copy & paste in the OS, no native third party applications, etc. Every iteration since then has added 'core' features that would be hard to live without now that we are used to them.