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Maybe there's no revolutionary hardware left to invent except the next smartphone that will actually be a chip in your brain.

>>conrad+(OP)
The iPhone was essentially enabled by (a) broadly deployed cellular networks, (b) touchscreens, (c) power efficient mobile chips, (d) battery technology.

The iWatch or iPad are probably better examples, as their technological prerequisites existed for quite a while before Apple packed them.

And I’d point out that they’re all fundamentally different physical interfacing methods.

Apple’s last non-physical major products were iTunes (more of a legal / licensing product than a technical one) and the App Store (basically driven by iPhone deployment and lock-in).

Has Apple ever released a groundbreaking non-physical/interface product? MacOS? Final Cut Pro?

>>ethbr1+ZV
Better glass as well. The old plastic touchscreen looked abysmal compared to the smooth glass screen.