Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vp of providers, gave an ominous warning right now that the iPhone might go the way in which of the iPod 10 years from now. And the rationale, as one would possibly guess, is synthetic intelligence.
Incumbents have a tough time … we’re not an oil firm, we’re not toothpaste — these are issues which are going to final eternally … chances are you’ll not want an iPhone 10 years from now.
Cue went on to say that the perfect factor Apple did was kill the iPod, a transfer he stated was daring. “Why would you kill the golden goose,” he added.
That might seem to be a foolish factor for Apple to say, on condition that greater than half of its income is iPhone gross sales. But Cue calls AI a “large technological shift,” and means that such shifts can humble firms that after appeared unassailable. “When I acquired to Silicon Valley,” he stated, “all the perfect firms or probably the most profitable firms” — he talked about HP, Sun Microsystems, and Intel — “both don’t exist right now or are considerably smaller and far much less impactful.”
