>That's an extremely narrow (and imo incorrect) definition of "innovation". Ignoring things (for the purposes of measuring innovation) from the last 5 years lik

>That's an extremely narrow (and imo incorrect) definition of "innovation". Ignoring things (for the purposes of measuring innovation) from the last 5 years like Google Chrome, self-driving cars, street view, knowledge graph, instant search, public transit directions (for which a whole standard for encoding transit directions was created and implemented) etc, simply because they're not new product categories (with the exception of the cars) just seems silly Well, true I have to count Maps (Earth/Street View) to Google's innovations. It's an important thing that millions use everyday, and that rules it's field. Chrome, OTOH, is just Apple's webkit work with a sandbox. Not substantially better than either Firefox or Safari. If we count that as innovation, then sure, Apple put out 2 versions of it's OS and several iOS versions with hundreds of new features, the new iMac, etc etc. As for the glasses and the self-driving cars, when we actually see them in the market I'll count them as innovations. Heck, I'll count them as innovations for Google even if someone else brings them to the market. As it is, they don't amount to much better than vapor(hard)ware. Plus, we know that behind the secrecy veil Apple also has dozens of prototypes and testing products most of which will never see the light of day. If they did a Google or Microsoft, they would have saturated the media with vaporware too.