Phones

The iPhone was a product I'd been waiting for.  And then some.  Carrying around a colour touchscreen PDA and a separate phone was one box too many.  Being able to carry music and videos around with a decent browser was a bonus.  So I got one when I could afford one.  By this time, they had GPS too.  And I've had one ever since.
I got the 5 last year (the fifth one they made, since counting starts with 0).  I saw it in a shop when my contract was up, and I didn't notice.  It was the same as the one I had, except with a slightly bigger screen.  Totally underwhelming, really.  The extra screen is needed due to my failing eyesight.
And so, the world waits in eager anticipation for new iPhones to be revealed in a couple of weeks' time.
Except that few people are really bothered any more.  The evidence to date suggests there will be a gold coloured version.  And some plastic ones in different colours - which I applaud.  (Black and white are so boring.)  And the plastic will improve the appalling radio signal reception.  Maybe it will have fingerprint recognition.  Hardly a reason to rush out to buy one.  I would like NFC personally, but Apple don't.
It's a shame really.  I hope Apple amaze everyone with something revolutionary  But I won't be surprised if they don't.

Tablets

I'm not really a fanboy, but I do keep a close eye on Apple.  Ever since the iPhone showed they had the right idea.  The trouble is, they don't seem to be doing much at the moment.
I got a new iPad this year.  To replace the original one I had.  I'd been saving up for the first one for some time (well before it's actual existence was admitted.)  After two years it was unusably unstable.  This was due to not having enough RAM in the first place.  So Apple abandoned it.  I couldn't find any better tablet though, so I had to replace it with the current model iPad.  Which had a higher resolution display.  Though my eyesight had deteriorated so much in the same time period that I couldn't tell the difference.  Sigh.
I seriously considered a Microsoft tablet.  But the Pro model was too expensive, and the RT model was a pointless exercise in trying to copy what Apple had done with iOS.  Poor Microsoft.  They had the right idea, but still messed up.  And now their boss is leaving.
Maybe I should have bought an Android one.  Or a Kindle.  The trouble is that I am so deep into Apple's ecosystem now that it's unlikely any one product will be enough to make me bail out.  Even given the inferiority of iPhones nowadays...