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When I go out in public, everyone has their face plastered to their iPhones, while wearing AirPods and checking the time on their Apple Watch.

So, no? Not hyperbolic?

By that logic, tobacco companies were also creating tomorrow and reinventing the today back in the early to mid-20th century.

If that is all you see you are missing most of the iceberg. The App store, airpods, apple watch, a whole host of their own apps, iphotos, and so much more. All very well executed and generating tremendous revenue. Is each one the best? Not necessarily, but as a whole ecosystem? Probably.

Walled garden consumerism is not what I consider the future or reinvention, no.

Not really - it's Apple that made them ubiquitous and thus mundane.

apple have changed or introduced dominant paradigms that have shaped the entire computing industry several times, and have changed how most of the world access or use technology