5 years after Steve Jobs' death, we still don't have our next great visionary

In the waning days of September, just before the five-year anniversary of the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, a man in France walked into an Apple Store and began methodically smashing iPhones with a metal ball. 

The casual destruction of the pricey devices — displayed as art, as Jobs, who died on Oct. 5, 2011, intended — into unrecognizable pieces of tech ephemera is a kind of metaphor for Apple's trajectory since his passing. As Apple has achieved the mainstream acceptance that it fought so long for, now, without Jobs around to curate the experience as "culture over mundane functionality," the shine on Apple's "tech couture" is, for some, beginning to dull.  Read more...