One of the barbs most frequently hurled at Apple by its critics is that no new Apple product — whether it be Apple Music or Apple Watch or the iPad Pro, etc. — is, or has any chance of being, as big as the iPhone.
No [shit] Sherlock.
Of COURSE no new product is going to be as big as the iPhone — because there is NOTHING BIGGER THAN THE IPHONE. And that’s the point.
The iPhone dominates the most dominant tech sector of our time.
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t criticize Apple for not surpassing the profits of the iPhone without acknowledging the profits of the iPhone or the fact that no one has been able to surpass the success of the iPhone.
Saying that Apple’s success is “limited” to the iPhone is like saying:
- Henry Ford’s success was “limited” to cars
- John D. Rockefeller ‘s success was “limited” to oil
- Andrew Carnegie’s success was “limited” to steel
- Cornelius Vanderbilt’s success was “limited” to railroads
Being limited to a product with limitless potential, ain’t such a bad thing and if you have to be dependent upon something, it’s best to be dependent upon the most dependably profitable product of your time. [Emphasis mine]