Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era

A first-person opinion piece argues Apple, now led by new CEO John Ternus, is in a "slop era" of copying competitors and shipping rejected ideas, citing cracking foldable iPhone Duos, a touch-screen laptop Steve Jobs and Tim Cook had dismissed, and a $300 Apple HomeView. The author recounts a petty grudge from 2010, when coworkers at a Dallas Banana Republic pressured him to trade his Motorola Razr for an iPhone, pushing him to Android instead.