Mark Ritson: Apple is still the big daddy in phoneland because it avoids pointless innovation

I can still remember the moment. I was in the final year of studies when my oldest mate came back up north from his flash job in the City to visit me and brought with him, would you believe it, a mobile phone. I’d seen them before in cars but the little, two-foot long Nokia he laid before me in the bar that night was a wonder to behold. We pondered it for several long seconds and then tried to think of who we might want to call on it.
A quarter of a century later I am old and exhausted. Bu