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Title: iPhones 17 and the Sugar Water Trap

Link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/09/10/181...

Analyst Ben Thompson, commenting on Apple's outlook following the launch of
the iPhone 17 lineup: Apple, to be fair, isn't selling the same sugar water
year-after-year in a zero sum war with other sugar water companies. Their
sugar water is getting better, and I think this year's seasonal concoction is
particularly tasty. What is inescapable, however, is that while the company
does still make new products -- I definitely plan on getting new AirPod Pro
3s! -- the company has, in the pursuit of easy profits, constrained the space
in which it innovates. That didn't matter for a long time: smartphones were
the center of innovation, and Apple was consequently the center of the tech
universe. Now, however, Apple is increasingly on the periphery, and I think
that, more than anything, is what bums people out: no, Apple may not be a
sugar water purveyor, but they are farther than they have been in years from
changing the world.

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