People have been saying this every Apple announcement since the first iPod. It's replaced the classic "beleaguered Apple" line that was so popular in the press

People have been saying this every Apple announcement since the first iPod. It's replaced the classic "beleaguered Apple" line that was so popular in the press before they were as massive as they are now. I'm not sure an incremental iPhone update is any real proof of stagnation given that every iPhone update since probably the X which introduced face ID has been incremental, with the predictable accompanying "nothing exciting or new since Steve Jobs" commentary. And certainly one could maybe argue that the fact that every update since the X has been largely incremental is that proof that Apple has stagnated, I would offer the counter argument that no one today would pick an iPhone X over an iPhone 16 even if the X still ran the latest iOS, and when the X was released Apple was still shipping computers with intel chips and has since then successfully introduced an entirely new class of computer processors capable of competing with x86, completed its 3rd complete and relatively seamless architecture change, along with ripple effects in the non-apple world in the way of boosting interest in Windows ARM and increased focus and market access for things like the Qualcom Snapdragon Elite chips. So while they may have slowed down some, I think going from the first A4 series chip in 2010 to an entire industry changing desktop class processor series in 2020 is the sort of "stagnation" I can live with.