Attendees view new products during an event at the Apple Park campus. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Apple Inc. has introduced plenty of product updates in the past year or so — the iPhone 16, the Series 10 smartwatch and several fresh Macs, to name a few — but it’s been a while since we saw something intriguingly new.
Though the Vision Pro headset certainly qualifies as innovative, it never caught on with consumers. And now its long-term future is in question as the company pivots to glasses. The iPhone 16, meanwhile, is undoubtedly one of the best smartphones on the market — but not too different than its four predecessors. In laptops, Apple has rolled out industry-leading processors, encased inside hardware that remains much the same.
This lack of groundbreaking change has taken a toll...
