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The dream people still have of a company that is the cleverest front runner, innovative in the core and aiming first at making something they themselves like most, is over. Alas no company can stay innovative forever, at a certain point it will start aiming for continuity. This is what we see happening at Apple. To make people coming back to its products it's not the frontrunner, I-am-different-from-the-rest feeling, but it is the locked into the ecosystem thing. I know, because I stepped over to a Windows phone, trying to get a feel of an other ecosystem. It's difficult. You feel lost, you feel you're not part of something big anymore. A strange feeling I didn't think would happen to me as I see myself to be flexible and not locked in.

So people still hoping that Apple will turn on its heels and will start aiming at its former users should really leave. Disappointment is their only future.

9secondkox2 said:

dutchlord said:

Instead of releasing Pride wall papers Apple should focus on useable functionality like smart mailboxes on the iPhone mail app. 

Yep. Couldn’t care less about that wallpaper. The settings update seems pretty good. But I’d really like to see mail get serious as the only mail app a user needs. Smart mailboxes, and the ability to schedule an email launch would be a good start. 

And please, also in other languages than English!

Apple is not so American anymore. 

rob53 said:

Why does everyone keep demanding something entirely different every year? What's wrong with simply delivering something that just works? People don't realize how difficult (and unnecessary) a total re-design is. Changing a design to meet the frivolous demands of customers and (especially) crazy analysts does not produce a better product only a different looking one.

I want something entirely new, that is crazy better and just works.