It began a while ago, it is just now more apparent because the level of innovation in each successive generation has become so small.  I wonder if we will look back at the last 8 years as Apple&#x27;s golden years, because it is really feeling like their best is now behind them.  The level of innovation that has created their most loyal of fans and zealots no longer exists, and there is so much less to indoctrinate the next generation.  Newcomers no longer think that Apple is a head and shoulders above the rest innovator and Apple is built on the loyalty created by being different.