“It has been four years since Apple Inc introduced a completely new gadget and the pressure is on for the world’s largest tech company to wow at its ‘special event’ in Cupertino, California, on Tuesday,” Christina Farr, Alexei Oreskovic and Noel Randewich report for Reuters. “Apple has fed the high expectations, with promises by executives that the company’s best product pipeline in 25 years is being readied inside its secretive facilities. That’s a high bar for a company whose hits include the modern, graphic-based personal computer, the smartphone, the iPod and the tablet PC.”
“Those now ubiquitous gadgets were created under the innovative and famously meticulous eye of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011,” Farr, Oreskovic and Randewich report. “When Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook takes the stage on Tuesday, technology aficionados, investors and rivals will be watching closely to see whether Jobs’ handpicked successor inherited the magic touch or whether Apple’s winning streak is coming to an end.”
“Apple’s Jobs was famous for surprising fans with unexpected products at the end of his presentations,” Farr, Oreskovic and Randewich report. “Could Cook preserve the tradition with a peek at a long-awaited Apple television, a rumored bigger iPad or a completely unexpected product?”
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