Apple was once considered extremely innovative despite its secrecy because it regularly shipped ground-breaking new products like OS X, its breathtakingly high-design computers in the late 90s and early 2000s, the iPod, and of course the iPhone.<p>Apple hasn&#x27;t shipped a successful new product line since Steve Jobs&#x27; death, and sales of its last successful major product — the iPhone — now seem to be slowing. Their cloud efforts are famously flailing, and their software is increasingly stale: who here has a folder full of unused Apple apps, with better third-party replacements on their home screen or dock? Almost everyone with an Apple device.<p>I sit here writing this on a Macbook, unironically. Their hardware manufacturing capability is best in class, and they&#x27;ve managed to hone their existing products&#x27; hardware increasingly close to perfection. But innovative? You can&#x27;t be innovative just by spending money on R&amp;D. You have to ship new products. And for now, Apple seems like it can&#x27;t.