> Yeah, M1 was a great innovation, but before that, the iPhone was the previous innovation.

Watch and AirPods are literally the most popular and profitable products in their market. The iPad dominates, too.

Any tech company would toss a limb for those "iterations". Aluminium unibody, stacked battery tech, MagSafe, ECG for watch, and much more.

Not sure I'd call taking existing technologies and putting them in laptops/watches innovation rather than iteration on existing stuff, but we're all different so it's all good.

If that's all it is, why isn't everyone doing it? And to the extent that they are doing the same sort of things, why are Apple taking on the order of 90% of the profits in multiple market segments? Clearly they are doing something different.

By that logic, the M1 was just packaging an ARM CPU in a laptop and the iPhone was just stuffing a SIM card in a PDA.

Innovation is literally taking technology and making it practical.

Can you please list some technologies or products that you think were innovations in the last 15 years?

My recollection of the time window is wrong, but I’d say microprocessors, then smartphones were fundamental. Chips ate both minicomputers and mainframes, and the smartphone totally altered how people interact with computers. Tablets are just big phones and watches are just smaller subsets. Software wise, the web. The net is old but it took the web to make it explode.

What am I missing?

Don't know why you're being downvoted. This is objectively true.

What is the objective definition of highly innovative?

I dunno...