panini :
For once someone who makes a criticism on Apple without bashing on them.
My criticism of Apple is that I want MORE than they're delivering. Some folks will buy Apple because it's cool, or because it matches their purse... I'm OK with that... I bought an iPhone because it fit my needs better than the other options at that time... but I've been disappointed with the lost opportunity that Apple had and has nearly lost through complacency. They have complete control over a wide swath of the current computing infrastructure (mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop) yet their interoperability is TERRIBLE. They could have tightly integrated those devices to make my life easier by having them able to connect transparently with each other, authenticate, and then link in ways that would be useful to me (like drag and drop, display extension, single control point for multiple devices, transparent tethering, etc...) but they've done nothing. Well that's not exactly true... they've asked us to put our faith in the 'Cloud' to connect devices, which is a poor solution (why send data to a remote server in order to retrieve it to a device 2 inches away from the source machine?).
Now Microsoft nearly has the same basic breadth of products (phone/tablet/laptop/desktop)... and they have the advantage of already showing tech demos of what I'm talking about (remember the big 'surface' that allowed you to drop a phone on it and pull pictures off the phone in about 2 seconds?). It's sad to say, but I think at this point we're more likely to see this (IMO Revolutionary) step in technology from the company that is rediculously late to the big game. That's inexcusable, and Jobs was as guilty of missing the boat as current Apple management.
I like Apple products, I've got an iPhone, iPad, Mac Mini, a bunch of mp3 players... but I want their innovation to be more than just another pretty skin on the same functionality... or a new map app.