“Apple is becoming more and more like a typical tech firm — that is, long on technology and short on magic. … Apple is drifting closer and closer to where it was back in the 1990s. It offers advancements that largely follow those made by others years earlier, product proliferation, a preference for more over simple elegance, and waning excitement.”

— Rob Enderle

Hearing Crickets at Apple's WWDC and a Pin Drop in the Senate http://technewsworld.com/story/84597.html in Tech News World (12 June 2017)

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