&gt; Google’s Android operating system continue to challenge the company with powerful, lower-price devices.&quot;<p>Apples customers barely complained on slow iPhones, and even less at their pricing level, where many knew apple margin is 40%. &quot;Normal&quot; company cannot withstand such high margins because of competition. Jobs achieved opposite where many people just said &quot;oh screw it - it will cost me plenty, but I really want it!&quot;<p>As of the lack of growth, I agree with you. It doesn&#x27;t mean they are in serious troubles, just like a light caught doesn&#x27;t mean you have a throat cancer. But the truth is that their products lost plenty with Job&#x27;s departure.<p>Apple growth barely been done due to progress, but rather because of evolution! First mass-scale touch device, first mass-storage music device (I know, there been Palm and others; but ask 10 people - who ever heard of Palm?). Those were steps of evolution. Before you couldn&#x27;t type with a finger. Before you couldn&#x27;t store 160GB of your music in your pocket. Etc etc.<p>Now Apple is all about growth. There is no more evolution! There is faster CPU, if you really needed it. There is lighter phone, if you really needed it. There is faster GPU, if you really needed it. There is more fancy front-facing camera.... BUT none of those things are evolution; its just a progress. And that won&#x27;t catapult Apple sales into previous levels. It simply can&#x27;t.<p>Would we see the same &quot;disappointing&quot; sales numbers had Jobs still be here? Most likely not. By now we would steer the &quot;i&quot; devices with our eyeballs, and mind control that really works and is friendly to a customer would be just around the corner...<p>As of today under current management... it&#x27;s funny, but my i device doesn&#x27;t even have an FM radio built-in.