Apple is running out of Ideas

If you have conclusive proof that you know for certain what the next iPhone will like outside of leaks, please share them, as I've seen the leaks, but I've also seen leaks and "proof" that Apple was going to release an actual TV and a smart watch last year. That didn't happen. Using leaked photos and smuggled bodies of what the next iPhone will look like is speculation, the only way you could have conclusive proof would be form internal Apple documents, and if you have those, you sir could become the most creditable leaker in the tech community. I say again, stating that the next iPhone will be bigger as fact before Apple has released information is very brazen of you. Apple has to focus on software and user experience just as much if not more than hardware. Software is what makes a Mac different form another computer. Software is what makes an iPhone different from other smartphones. Software is what made the iPod sell like hotcakes even though there might have been better MP3 players on the market. Software is what made Apple the company it is. One must remember that OS X was made to work on Intel chips using a Sony Vaio, not an Intel Mac, as those didn't exist. Software is Apple's means of existence. Hardware is only as good as the software that runs on it, otherwise you have a very expensive paper weight. While I agree that the functional difference of iOS 7 and iOS 6 are largely the same, they should be lest they wish to undermine their current customers (and relive a backlash similar to that of Final Cut Pro X). iOS 8 offers more than just cosmetics, but new APIs to developers that make lower level system integration easier for developers. The other features that allow for one to work on the same items across devices instantaneously (or so Apple claims). My jab at Samsung is not that they make bad products, the Note 10.1 2014, Galaxy S5, and Note 3 are all fantastic pieces of technology, but they also flood the market with puzzling product lines (mainly tablets) in such a way that one can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Samsung device? Is that a bad thing? Yes, as Samsung has a shoddy history of supporting it's lower end products after the initial sale. While this isn't the topic of debate, I wished to clarify. You are also correct, it was a immature way to make my statement, and I apologize. I am glad you see the utility of Swift to some extent, and it's foundation on C and Objective C isn't meant to be used by anyone other than Apple developers. Apple's intention with the language isn't to replace C and C based languages in the rest of the world, but rather give those developers who do work with Apple products another way to develop. The iPhone 5 came out in September of 2012, not July. The iPhone 5S that you keep talking about was released the following year, the current iPhone hasn't even been on the market for 12 months let alone 24, perhaps the design has, but not the hardware inside of it. The iPhone 5S was the first consumer grade, ARM based phone with a 64 bit processor (regardless of how useful that might be with a single gig of RAM). That's innovation. Apple added a motion coprocessor to the 5S for developers to implement in their own apps. That's innovation. Having a fingerprint reader that was implemented well on the 5S, as silly and trivial as it may see, is still innovation. Taking a professional grade workstation and engineering it down to a compact cylinder with more power than before. That again, is innovation. Simply because Apple isn't pushing out a new break through product line or releasing product updates like the iPhone 4 or iPad 2, that doesn't mean they are fully out of ideas. I repeat my point, you are so short sided as you only believe a new idea can come from hardware, yet fail to see that while Apple put a lot of effort into it's hardware, it's software defines it, the software is what makes Apple's products unique. I agree that Apple hasn't released a big, game changing product in the past few years under Cook's leadership, but that doesn't mean they are completely out of ideas just yet. As a simple disclaimer that may or may not be needed. I'm not an Apple fanboy, at least not anymore. While my primary computer may be a MacBook Pro, I also have a secondary machine running Windows and Linux, my primary phone is a Moto X and my main tablet is a Nexus 7. I enjoy technology of all sorts, and give credit to the company that does something right and innovates. This is why I accepted the challenge, not only because the Pro argument isn't fully formed, but because I honest believe that Apple's not out of ideas, even if it's current ideas aren't as revolutionary as the ideas of the past.