To make us care about its product announcements, Apple needs to take a page out of the Steve Jobs handbook and kill them.
Dreary, claustrophobic, and middling aren't words that anyone ever used to describe Apple's product announcements when Steve Jobs was at the helm. But they serve just fine for yesterday's affair, in which CEO Tim Cook and a series of drab Apple executives announced a 4" iPhone, a powerful iPad Pro, and a number of smaller improvements, ranging from pretty watchbands to significant upgrades of its mobile operating system.