&gt; Apple hasn&#x27;t shipped a successful new product line since Steve Jobs&#x27; death<p>I disagree.<p>The Apple Watch is only &quot;unsuccessful&quot; using a yardstick calibrated to the scale of existing Apple product lines -- in its first year it appears to have achieved sales revenue on the same order as Rolex ($4.7Bn, per Forbes).<p>(Apple&#x27;s secretiveness makes it hard to tell how many Watches they&#x27;ve sold, but the <i>low</i> estimates are in the millions, and the high end estimate -- 12 million shipped through 2015, per Canalys --  would put them in the same league as the market leading luxury watch manufacturer, if not ahead.)<p>If any other company had released a product that <i>replaced the century-old industry-wide #1 luxury brand within a single year</i> it would be seen as truly disruptive and a major breakthrough. But the wristwatch industry is small by Apple standards, and the nascent smartwatch market is still embryonic compared to smartphones, so the scale of sales doesn&#x27;t match onlookers&#x27; inflated expectations of an Apple product.<p>(As for Project Titan, I expect a bit more than just an electric car, given that scale of investment. Possibly an attempt at redefining how we do intraurban and suburban personal transport, the Apple way. But they&#x27;ll have an uphill struggle to supplant the automobile with something better, because of all the built infrastructure and regulatory constraints, so at least at first it&#x27;ll <i>look</i> like &quot;just an electric car&quot;.)