“Even in his last days Steve Jobs was thinking of the future,” Thomas Grillo reports for The Boston Herald. “The Apple genius stockpiled fours years worth of blueprints for fresh products to ensure his company’s success, according to reports.”
Grillo reports, “Carl Howe, director of Yankee Group’s Consumer Research group, said he’s not surprised that Jobs was at work on future Apple products, noting that the design registration for the iPad was completed in 2004 but not introduced to the marketplace until last year. ‘It’s not like these guys plan only a quarter or two in advance,’ he said. ‘Jobs anticipated new products years ahead.'”
iPhone 4S “will be the first Apple product release since Jobs’ Oct. 5 death… Howe said the stunning presages [over 1 million units in the first 24-hours] confirm a survey that was completed before the introduction of the new iPhone,” Grillo reports. “Consumers were asked if they were interested in the new Apple phone and a whopping 40 percent of those polled said they would buy a new iPhone without knowing what was in it.”
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Zack Whittaker reports for ZDNet, “Speaking to a British newspaper, sources said Steve Jobs worked on the future of the products he helped design and shape in a bid to safeguard the future of his company.”
“Jobs was also overseeing work on iCloud, in order to future-proof the company against cloud computing competitors, and to enable the company to put into play more advanced technologies which center around the cloud and online experience,” Whittaker reports.
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