{"id":5105,"date":"2013-09-03T11:30:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2013-09-03T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T18:30:41","slug":"apples-lack-of-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5105","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s Lack of Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, Apple was the innovator, Microsoft was the imitator. Apple created wildly unique products, many of them becoming industry-changing paradigms. Microsoft was the &#8220;me too&#8221; that came later, oh and toss in a new &#8220;standard&#8221; based on the technology they aped from someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft hasn&#8217;t changed, but has Apple? Since the iPad, what has Apple offered the tech universe that&#8217;s been astoundingly fresh and different?<\/p>\n<p>Nada.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the stock continues to climb.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the iWatch will be a breakout product, but even then Samsung&#8217;s wrist computer is due out before the end of the month. Apple is languishing. And it&#8217;s doubly disappointing for me because, generally speaking, any industry excitement invariably comes from the fruit company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valuewalk.com\/2013\/08\/apple-inc-aapl-shows-few-signs-of-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, Apple was the innovator, Microsoft was the imitator. Apple created wildly unique products, many of them becoming industry-changing paradigms. Microsoft was the &#8220;me too&#8221; that came later, oh and toss in a new &#8220;standard&#8221; based on the technology they aped from someone else. Microsoft hasn&#8217;t changed, but has Apple? Since the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5106,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}