Are you saying that Apple doesn't inspire design? Or are you saying "Yes, they inspire great design, but here's this other completely unrelated gripe I have, so I'm going to grind my axe every time Apple is mentioned with any kind of positive tone?"
I'm not slamming you on this, if you could show a connection between the two things, that would be very interesting. Sticking to software and not to hardware, I might say that Microsoft and the PC manufacturers allow anybody to make anything, so there are nice PC-Windows things but they are drowned in a sea of dreck. But Apple retain a tight fist over software and filter out the crap. It might appear that Apple inspires great software, but that's only because the proportion of nice stuff to dreck is higher when someone's filtering the dreck out. In reality there might be 2x or even 10x as much nice stuff in total written for Windows, it's just drowned by 100x as much dreck.
Now, I am not saying that, it's a strawman put up as an example of drawing a connection between their closed platform policies and great design by third parties. Perhaps you can draw a better connection? I actually sympathize with you... I have written several blog posts criticizing Apple's policies. I just don't see the connection here and need some help connecting the dots.
I do like apple products but really what innovation did they kill?
Do you know how unthinkable an app store model was 5 years ago? Sure there are innovative things happening on android but would it even exist without iPhone?
>>I do like apple products but really what innovation did they kill?
All kind of products that would've competed with Apple bundled apps, or could've been seen as illegal in some state, or had some erotic content ...
>>Do you know how unthinkable an app store model was 5 years ago?
Microsoft had a store 5 years ago. What does it have to do with Apple closing their platforms, to make higher profits, while stopping a lot of innovation?
>>Sure there are innovative things happening on android but would it even exist without iPhone?
Symbian, Windows CE and many more existed before the iPhone. As the price of hardware falls and mobile devices become more powerful/useful more and more users are getting smartphones. Android would've made perfect sense, w/o iPhone.
Ok I must admit I am by no means an AAPL fanboy. Quite the contrary actually. I hate how Jobs and company likes to get its users drunk with the Kool-Aid. But a credit should be given where it's due. Have you seen something as innovative and clever with a PC? Microsoft brought out first commercial tablet. Did that inspire anybody to do something similar?
