“After years of being one of the most widely read and quoted Apple analysts on Wall Street, Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster on Friday released his final research note on the company,” Ina Fried reports for Recode.
“As for Apple’s future, Munster sees the company looking to increasingly become a services company and points to augmented reality as one of the key opportunities for Apple to innovate,” Fried reports. “‘The smartphone remains the world’s window to augmented reality today,’ Munster wrote in the note. ‘While this will change driven by augmented and mixed reality hardware in the future, we would expect the next five years of AR innovation will happen mainly through the device in our pockets.'”
“Adding various sensors to phones and creating external glasses are among the short-term opportunities, he said,” Fried reports. “But over the longer term (more than five years out), Munster said he believes ‘Apple could develop some type of AR or MR wearable that ultimately replaces the smartphone.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote on September 19th:
An LTE-enabled Apple Watch and a pair of AirPods would supplant a great deal of iPhone’s current functions.
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Maybe, but I’m holding out for AR contact lenses. I hope I’m still alive then.
One of the main characters in the movie Kill Command had contact lenses with display capability as well as a number of other communications implants. No need for a separate phone there. Very cool.
Munster is leaving? Tim Cook should reach into his pipeline and pull out that TV that has been percolating as a goodbye gift.
Ha Ha Ha Ha! You so funny.
I’m sufficiently challenged by reality just the way it is, thank you. Augment people, not reality.
I highly doubt it, and those services have to run on something, most likely not something you are required to wear to use. Whatever, Gene.
The Singularity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near
Great Dr. Kurzweil. Except this:
Doctors report a case of Google Glass addiction
So, no singularity for me please. I like living and thinking outside the box, aka thinking for myself.