“Apple’s stock has been disregarded for most of this year as critics have complained that its best days are behind it,” Eric Jackson writes for TheStreet. “However, there are still many new surprises to expect out of Apple in 2013.”
3 Apple surprises you’ll see before year’s end:
1. iOS 7 is going to be the big surprise this autumn, not the 5S.
2. The Apple Band [iWatch] is going to be a runaway hit.
3. 5C will be embraced by the emerging markets and will make Apple a boatload of money.
Tons more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bill” for the heads up.]
If a surprise is expected, can it still be a surprise?
Headline after the September rollout: “Apple fails to deliver expected surprises. Company’s future in doubt.”
The real “surprise” will be if Eric Jackson still has a job before year’s end.
If a surprise yells “surprise!” in the forest with nobody there does it still make a sound?
iOS 7 is not a sirprise for this fall. It was already a surprise at WWDC. Who is this asshat?
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I think you’re misunderstanding how the writer is using the word ‘surprise.’ They don’t mean it in the sense of something that you’re unaware of, but in the sense that what iOS 7 will bring – in terms of its functionality – something new and interesting.
You are correct he is saying there has been an underestimation on the part of many.
Who is this crude slob?
4. China Mobile signed with Apple
5. The Mac Pro and the iMac (without the NSA back door) will be the run-a-way hit every where.
6. Apple has more that the 5 server farms that they talked about.
7. The Mac Pro in the Home Hub that Steve Jobs talked about and the only real solution for streaming the 4K HDTV to the new 4K HDTV sets.
8. Developers will be able to make apps for the AppleTV.
Bring on number 8!!!!
9. Apple cuts deals with major TV content providers to greatly expand the Apple TV. Apps from content providers and developers become de facto channels. That’s something Chinese or Taiwanese blogging site can’t leak.
Whether Apple ever makes a TV is not relevant to me. I am still skeptical, despite a friend’s urging that Apple is at work on a 4K television. I would imagine that could be spectacular, but if I were Tim Cook, I would avoid the temptation. Televisions are a highly competitive, low-margin, slow turnover business, and not a little commoditized. Samsung can produce TVs more cheaply than their Asian counterparts, and is slowly pushing well known competitors such as Sony and Panasonic off the road. Why Apple would want to get in that game is a mystery to me, and leads me to be highly skeptical.
On the other hand, the little AppleTV has loads of potential. With its low selling cost, it’s an easy purchase decision for consumers and could invite quick turnover. But the real attraction of the AppleTV is what’s inside, and I don’t mean hardware. The more that Eddy Cue and his team can cut content deals, and work with developers to allow apps such as games on it, the AppleTV can expand into something much greater.
With its ties to iTunes and the App Store, the AppleTV can bring the Apple Store to users’ living rooms, tie more deeply into consumers’ iPhones, iPads and Macs for work and play, and with the introduction of major new TV and movie channel deals, and hopefully allowing third party apps to work with it, the little AppleTV could significantly expand the revenues and revenue growth of the operations managed by Eddy Cue and his team.
Sorry, Gene Munster. Wish all you want for a TV. But I think you’ll be proven wrong. But the biggest thing Apple can do with TV involves contractual deals to make the AppleTV, and television in general, a much different and hopefully better experience.
That’s my two cents’ worth of stupid opinions. I’ll shut up now and enjoy the weekend. I wish a great weekend to you.
10. Apple hires Steve Ballmer to do the Monkey Boy Dance on demand – coming soon to Apple TV.
4. Of course.
5. No.
6. Ok…….. Sure.
7. No. Too expensive for the masses.
8. Yes.
Number 8: Marissa Mayer!!!
No.
Number 4: Marissa Mayer. i love that giggly laugh.
@Brian, all Apple has to do is license NFL broadcast rights through Apple TV, and it’s “Game Over” for the competition, So To Speak. Well, I can dream…
A point well taken, my friend. It would cost Apple a lot, but it could make a lot of money for Apple. If if there’s a company with the deep pockets to make this happen, it’s our buddies in Cupertino.
11. Apple buys controlling interest in Disney, gets not only NFL football on wholly owned ESPN, but BCS, MLB, NASCAR, etc. Apple thereby also gets all ABC Television content, all Pixar, Touchstone, and Buena Vista content, all Disney movies, TV shows, and cartoons. Game over for everyone else.
Cost would be about $60B…pocket change.
Only in the states. The market is much larger outside the US. I for one want football not NFL.
One thing won’t be there (no idea what) but some doofus will claim it was essential and expected and the fact that it’s missing means Apple has lost its edge and is doomed and you should sell your stock and TC needs to follow SB out the door.
Sigh.
Apple should spread the product releases out a bit, I think. Preferably starting 2 months ago…
#4: Apple will close deals with individual content providers Disney, ESPN, Viacom and Time Warner and release a revamped 4th Gen Apple TV and it is a run away hit.
Even if Apple does every number suggested, I feel certain the company will still be regarded as having its best days behind it. If the critics stay locked onto the belief that Apple can only flourish with Steve Jobs at the helm, Apple will never be able to move into the future in terms of shareholder value. They’re always going to be making up some reasons about why Apple is no longer the company it used to be in a negative connotation.
first off, iwatch won’t be released until fall next year at least. iphone 5C targets for other countries rather than US. iOS7 is just combined with android OS for sure. many people will also hate or like.