Sometimes I’d rather be wrong.

Imagine if Apple Inc.had announced on Wednesday that its newest iPhones would feature X-ray vision or a built-in lie detector. That would have made nonsense of a column I wrote last month, and I’d have been delighted.

Instead, Wednesday’s rollout of the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus smartphones showed I was pretty much on target. Apple, and everybody else in consumer electronics, has hit an innovation plateau, and major life-changing improvements in our gadgets are nowhere in sight.

Still, Apple announced some cool stuff, including stereo speakers, waterproofing, and an attractive new camera technology that ought to generate much better photos. And the company served up a hint that it’s taking the idea of wireless devices quite literally.

The iPhone 7, with a starting price of $649 and the 7 Plus, starting at $769, both get upgraded rear-facing cameras. But the big change is a new dual-lens camera on the supersized 7 Plus that could make iPhone photos even more impressive than they already are.

The iPhone 7 Plus will have a telephoto lens for long-range shots alongside a standard lens, and manage the pair of them with special software. Having two lenses reduces the need to use digital zoom for closeups. A digital zoom just enlarges the photo’s pixels, making the image grainy and blurry. Instead, a dual-lens camera can switch to the telephoto lens for closeups. Or it can shoot pictures with both lenses at once, to combine a sharp image in the foreground with a gentle background blur.

Photos like that are gorgeous to look at, but rather hard to shoot, even with the pricey Nikon I use in my spare time. If I were in the market, I’d pay extra for the 7 Plus, just for the camera.

Still, it’s not a must-have, and the other upgrades are even less compelling. The new phones will have faster processors, but my 6 is fast enough. Including at least 32 gigs of memory is good, but I can just delete stuff when my 16 gigs run low. For water resistance, get a new case, not a new phone.

And as for the iPhone 7’s new stereo system, nobody cares. Just ask HTC Corp. Its Android phones have boasted excellent speakers for years, and what has it gotten them? A measly 3 percent market share.

Then again, innovations can sometimes creep up on us when we’re hardly paying attention. And sure enough, I heard a rustling sound in the tall grass when Apple talked about its new headphone strategy. As expected, the new ­iPhones will get rid of the traditional headphone jack. In addition, Apple will offer a new option — wireless earbuds.

And suddenly I remembered how Apple purged its computers of floppy drives and CD drives, and is now replacing traditional hard drives with faster, more reliable flash memory cards. “Simplify, simplify,’’ said Henry David Thoreau. So did Steve Jobs. And what could be simpler than a world without wires?

Start with the headphone. Losing the built-in jack makes room in the iPhone for more advanced components. For now, the iPhone will still use earbuds that plug into the Lightning port used to recharge the phone and sync data with a PC or Mac. A free adapter will let users of old-school phones connect to the Lightning port.

But Apple’s optional Airpods, priced at $159, are totally wireless earbuds that are supposed to instantly connect to other Apple devices. The company provided no details, but it apparently uses a new low-powered version of Wi-Fi networking to make the hookups. The Airpods will also instantly connect to other Apple devices, like Mac computers and iPads. And they promise five hours of battery life.

Now for the Lightning connector. No sane person plugs his iPhone into a PC or Mac to sync it with Apple’s dreadful iTunes software. Instead, we back up onboard data to Apple’s iCloud service, or to Google or Dropbox. So the only reason to plug in an iPhone is to recharge its battery.

And that’s a pretty feeble reason, since wireless-charging technology has been with us for years. It’s built into Samsung Corp.’s Galaxy S7 phone, for instance. Just drop the phone onto a wireless charging pad and let it lie there and soak up the juice. Apple has yet to offer wireless charging, but it’s no secret that the company is researching the idea.

Samsung and other companies have treated wireless charging as a clever gimmick. I think Apple sees it as one part of an entire wireless ecosystem, with a new kind of iPhone at its heart, a device without a single plug-in port, as pure and seamless as the black monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s movie “2001.’’ I could be wrong about this, but I doubt it.