"It's been way too long," read the press invites for Apple's iPad Air 2 launch event Thursday. Presumably this was an attempt at a pun on the fact that the new tablet is ... thinner? Not only did the pun not work, the event itself was the most underwhelming example of Apple stagecraft since Gil Amelio was CEO in 1997, with the famously guarded, introverted company seemed almost fatigued.