I don't think it's in dispute that deep in the bowels of the cupertino campus that Apple puts together some pretty amazing technologies in both harware and software. All-in-one computer(macintosh), laser printer, portable laptop computer, cut and paste, firewire, newton, airport, iMac (loss of the floppy drive!), OSX. They also come up with some pretty hardware - iMac, 20th Anniversary mac, the widescreen flat panel, the iBook. Even more amazing are the technologies that never make it: Star Trek, Project X/Hot Sauce, newton, etc. The reality now is that Apple has been forced by the market to focus more on shipable products than flights of design fancy and I think across the board, this has happened in the industry. It's a shame, tho Apple still does it the best (OSX is solid proof of that - while the MS juggernaut cannot seem to get the next gen OS working properly, Apple engineers have married Linux and the MAcGUI - as well as total backwards compatability with the many programs people need that aren't (yet) available on Linux)
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I don't think it's in dispute that deep in the bowels of the cupertino campus that Apple puts together some pretty amazing technologies in both harware and software. All-in-one computer(macintosh), laser printer, portable laptop computer, cut and paste, firewire, newton, airport, iMac (loss of the floppy drive!), OSX. They also come up with some pretty hardware - iMac, 20th Anniversary mac, the widescreen flat panel, the iBook. Even more amazing are the technologies that never make it: Star Trek, Project X/Hot Sauce, newton, etc. The reality now is that Apple has been forced by the market to focus more on shipable products than flights of design fancy and I think across the board, this has happened in the industry. It's a shame, tho Apple still does it the best (OSX is solid proof of that - while the MS juggernaut cannot seem to get the next gen OS working properly, Apple engineers have married Linux and the MAcGUI - as well as total backwards compatability with the many programs people need that aren't (yet) available on Linux)