Exactly. In fact I'm pretty sure I recall Steve mentioning in an interview that he was lucky to have been there with Apple for 2 revolutionary products - the Apple II and the iPod - and that most companies are extremely lucky to ever see one revolutionary product get to market. Building your business model around reliably releasing revolutionary products year after year is setting yourself up for failure.

Not every release has to be a revolution. Simply making things better than the rest of the market, and selling them for a price those who want decent hardware will pay for has proven to be reasonably profitable.

No. Apple's business model is "don't build bargain basement crap". It just so happens that now and again, those "not bargain basement crap" items end up being groundbreaking, because plenty of other companies get to market first with garbage, or don't see the market at all.

Apple's prices haven't been high for a good 6-7 years or more now. Yes, i'm aware you can buy a laptop for $250. It's garbage. The trackpad will suck, the screen will suck, the OS will suck, etc. I've yet to use a PC laptop (and being the person who evaluates PC hardware purchase for my company, I see a lot) that feels as well engineered as a functional product as my 2011 Macbook Pro, at any price.

And this is where I am sure somebody will pull out some paper specs (which are largely irrelevant) claiming PC hardware superiority. Missing the point entirely.

So, now i've seen the keynote.... how does a new programming language, automatically synced application state between devices and seamless use of mobile network for calling from your mac strike you? Does any other company offer anything similar? No, thought not.

Why is this allegation constantly leveled at Apple? What have Samsung done? What has Google done? Fact is, revolutionary hardware or software doesn't come around very often. If Apple are doing such a poor job, what is your suggestion?

The mac mini is plenty for enterprise use, as is the MBA. The hardware is not the problem. It's the immaturity of enterprise management tools. No, macs don't need anywhere near as much IT management, but the enterprise will be slow to acknowledge that, and without proper enterprise management, they will not be readily accepted.

Yup. Guaranteed quality digital content (no crapshoot with downloading torrents), its relatively cheap ($2-$4 = not worth my time screwing around with dodgy rips), and if your internet connection is say 6-8 megabit or faster streaming is no problem at all.

I really believe that decent broadband will have a signifnicant impact on consumer storage. I would bet that most people with multiple tb of storage at home (note, not all - i'm sure there are exceptions, so don't both saying "i have a heap of legitimate content") are using it purely to store ripped or illegally downloaded media. Convenient, cheap streaming = bottom will drop out of the storage market.

I can buy content from itunes for similar price, not have to leave my home, and play it as many times as I want. I will never scratch the non-existent media, never lose it, and it will play on all of my devices. Sure if Apple goes broke i lose access to my media, but the chances of that happening are probably smaller than WW3 starting and us all being nuked back into the stone age.

Yup. The appletv is crying out for a controller - there are millions of iOS developers who would love to break into the home console market. The hardware is capable enough, it just needs the relevant gaming APIs. The fact that apple have recently done the game-related kits for iOS IMHO strongly suggests that gaming is definitely going to be more of a focus in future. A controller enabled AppleTV makes sense.

Also... to clarify, the resolution scaling I *have* seen "function" in windows 8.1 tends to make widgets and fonts clearly look like they are not rendered in native resolution. They look "off" ... somewhat smudged/blurred. The worst is when you have two monitors, same pixel resolution but different physical size (e.g., my laptop's internal 15" 1920x1080 display, and a 22" 1920x1080 monitor). Windows insists on DPI scaling my laptop display, making text render badly, and windows re-size in relation to the portion of the screen they take up as i move them from monitor to monitor. I have tried to turn it off, this does not fix the problem.

Calling the resolution independence in Windows 8.1 "half baked" would be kind. I'm calling it crap.

... without needing a physical keyboard (type/touch cover), i might add.

I agree. For what I want to actually use a tablet for, I find the limitations of the iPad acceptable. This is the thing the android developers - mostly Samsung (and Microsoft) it appears, don't quite seem to get. Making something actually good doesn't just mean adding features. It can/does often mean stripping away extraneous crap that just gets in the way.

The latest smartwatch fad is a prime example. No, i don't want a camera on my watch. No, i don't want a web browser on my watch. No, i don't want the ability to send SMS from my watch. That is all bullshit stuff that I can already do far more easily on the phone or tablet that I already own.

Windows 8.1, 2 months ago.

Sounds so much easier and comparable to pinching out...

Yeah because winkey + is SO much easier than pinching.

Already happens... plenty of companies run Microsoft Online Protection for exchange (or whatever they call it this week) which scans all inbound and outbound mail for their domain. Oh, what you never consented to microsoft getting a copy of your files? Too bad...