I have long thought that Apple was working in secret on a consumer robot; perhaps something on the order of $1-5k price point. It was just a hunch.<p>I&#x27;ve now begun to think that the increase in what everyone is calling &quot;R&amp;D&quot; is just Apple become too large to any longer be efficient. Perhaps they&#x27;ve crossed that point mentioned in the Mythical Man Month where gains in team size decrease productivity.