>>I think chalking up [Apple's] success to "innovation" is missing the point

I didn't chalk anything up to anything.

I noted that you were smoking something strange -- probably found at a marketing department -- when you wrote that the iPhone/iPad was as innovative as the Amazon "sell the razor cheap, earn money on the blades" strategy...

Just because lots of people had been trying to create pads, but failed. (Because they were innovative?:-) )

You didn't touch that simple point.