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Apple With iPhone sales flagging, Apple needs big new offering to excite its base

I like iPhones, but I think the smartphone in general has matured. The last upgrade I found compelling was an iPhone 5 to 6 upgrade. I haven't found anything compelling in the Android world either for several years. Processing speed, comm speed, storage capacity, camera quality, display quality have all been quite sufficient for several years now on all platforms, for my tastes and I am fairly average Joe. So if the smartphone vendors want people to upgrade, switch, or buy for the first time (who is that except for the young?), they are going to have to come up with some new capabilities that people will actually use and find valuable, not just improvements of what they have now. Perhaps it is time to move on beyond smartphones - i.e. come up with the next big thing.