This point-of-view has been browbeaten into submission, but: Those products were made under the heavy influence of Steve Jobs, and it showed. Read the history,

This point-of-view has been browbeaten into submission, but: Those products were made under the heavy influence of Steve Jobs, and it showed. Read the history, Steve had the vision and was intimately involved in every detail of those products and the business around them, in addition to staffing them with world class people. Apple without Steve Jobs is a very different beast, a completely unknown quantity that has yet to prove itself. So far it is not doing too well IMHO.