Apple thought it would be a good idea to lose the headphone jack in their new iPhone.  They thought it was time to lose the X in OS X.  They seem to have lost the drive to innovate in favour of change for the sake of change.

They lost costumers.

They lost revenue for the first time since 2001. http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/25/13410020/apple-annual-revenue-decline-first-2001  A 9% loss, in fact.

Do you think Apple has lost their way?  As a mac user (and Windows and Linux) they seem to be retooling their OS to adopt Windows 10 features.  The latest iOS has a distinctly Android feel.  Apple has gone from setting the direction to letting others set it for them.  This seems like a bad idea for the company branded on innovation.

Yes, Apple has borrowed great ideas from competitors in the past, but it was always rolled into the overall vision.  Now there seems to be no internal vision, and all the ideas are adopted from competing systems.

I stand corrected... Apple did have some innovation left to share.  The touch bar on the new Macbook Pros unveiled this week seems pretty slick.  It reminds me a lot of the trackpad from the Razer Deathstalker Ultimate keyboard (http://www.razerzone.com/ca-en/gaming-keyboards-keypads/razer-deathstalker-ultimate) which is a programmable graphical touch sensitive UI, but Apple has taken the idea and polished it up for their flagship laptop to replace the Function Keys.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/27/apple-unveils-a-thinner-macbook-pro-with-oled-touch-strip/

Apple has lost the (in)famous startup sound!  No more power-on-self-test "bong"!  http://gizmodo.com/end-of-an-era-goodbye-mac-startup-sound-1788383059

Interesting article on the state of Apple: http://www.cringely.com/2016/10/31/heck-happened-apple/