Most of what you mentioned came from big companies with a $billion or more. Mike is an Investor. When he says that innovation is not happening, its probably because he is not seeing good ones starting up, i.e a new comer with an amazing idea. We'll see the effect a few years from now, when most great products come from Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Apple. It is probably that way already.

Every decade has had a game changer who came in from no where. Who is going to take away the 201x?

Who was the game changer of the 2000s?

Google and Apple were probably the two biggest game changers of the 2000s. Apple's being a resurgence and Google being a company founded at the very end of the 90s.

Ooh! I had the same idea about providing contextual information. But you executed on it. This is a wonderful tool that I'd use. All the best. Keep improving it.

This whole implementation could just have been someone's weekend hobby that made it to production. Remember how Apple got its intel based macs? http://qr.ae/8eDNG

Just want to mention it before we blurt out the obvious over-engineering argument. ;)

i think he missed Gatekeeper.

In-app hologram when you edit your credit card. Unfortunately this is not in the shipping build of Pay with Square, but it was there in Card Case (and was epic!).

ahh.. I see!

I don't think he's referring to the app icon, but rather the hologram within the app.

It was a hologram inside of the app...

The blog doesn't give us a recipe to create the next big thing. It just explains the only way to make it.

I assume you meant 'one way to make it', not 'only way to make it'

Read as "Apple is 10 years behind Microsoft in our revenue growth chart."

Audiobooks & podcasts are my most used mode of learning. I generally take a walk while listening to the talk. Its a little exercise and learning at the same time. - Maintaining a regular route helps you focus. - make sure the entire route is safer

This whole Foxconn scrutiny is a blessing in disguise for Apple. How so?

Apple has deep pockets and very healthy margins that they could afford to fix this whole issue while keeping it in the media's radar and then at the right time turn it back to its competitors to prove their ethics. The competitors whose margins are already spread too thin will have great difficulty in coming clean in this issue. Apple gets a positive PR while others struggle.

What we can get out of this is post is that there is a lack of common protocol between the existing contributors and new ones who want to jump in. If TODO is not the right fit, then something like a FIXME or TESTME should help the new developer get started quickly. If a project follows this protocol, just add notes in the contribute section of the Readme; something like: "New contributors can get started with looking for FIXME in the code base".