ZDNet’s most recent Great Debate raised the question whether Apple needs to innovate more rapidly. The answer is a definite “yes” and here’s why.
I love when writers and analysts talk about other peoples businesses and come up with blanket statements like this. What's even more amazing is to use the stock prices of two companies as your argument.
Wall Street is the killer of innovation. Innovation happens over time, you can't rush it. It happens through iterations. If Apple were to have hurried their innovation in the past they would have released the iPad first, which would have been a flop because it would have cost much more than it did when they introduced it. Instead, they took their time and iterated and introduced the iPhone first, which allowed them to build up more buying leverage to reduce prices for the iPad.
Apple will show us what their next innovation is and analysts and tech writers won't be the ones dictating the timetable.