“Today Apple is valued as one of, if not the, most valuable companies in the world,” Michael Gartenberg writes for iMore. “And with good reason. I recently took Amtrak’s Acela Express train from New York to Boston and pretty much every person I saw was consulting some electronic oracle or another, all with fruit company logos on the back.”
“It is said that after conquering all the known world, Alexander the Great wept for there were no more worlds to conquer,” Gartenberg writes. “In a world where the Apple eco-system has permeated the hearts, minds, and wallets of people everywhere, what happens when everyone has an iPhone or iPad?”
“Apple turned 40 this month, and while the company’s history has been well chronicled, for me its story has just begun,” Gartenberg writes. “As Apple’s value grows north of half-a-trillion dollars, the question becomes one Jed Bartlett was especially fond of — what’s next?”
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MacDailyNews Take: Whatever it is – vehicles, clean energy, VR/AR, robotics – it will be a leap forward that will lay waste to existing industries while creating entirely new ones.
Doh!
I already answered this question
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3022172/internet-of-things/opinion-apple-the-infrastructure-company.html
Honestly, this article is much better than the article that this post links to.
What’s next? A virtual country named Apple.
It is time for Apple to get back to what they were doing right just a couple of years from now: Software.
The next years are going to be software and Apple just layed the hardware all over the planet. iOS, macOS, Appstore, AppleMusic, tvOS, WatchOS, Healthkit, … Soon vrOS, carOS and CleanenergyOS, …
Hope WS anals clean their shit eyes and look over the hardware sells… And see sustainability.
Bah… Just dreaming
I think there is a lot of market potential in converting the next tier of people who are currently Android phone settlers. They say there is no more fervent devotee …than a former zealot for another faith.
Same for corporate worker ants formerly of the beige box PC & Windows persuasion.
Not to mention services. And I love the idea of an Apple car.
The king is dead! Long live the King!
Certainly Michael Gartenberg’s known world must larger than ‘Bosnywash’! Even bigger than the USA. They US of A’s population is around 1/3 of a billion. There are more than 6 billion people in the world and growing. Apple has a lot of headroom before ‘everyone’ has an iOS product in his or her hands.
I never see any good news for this company. Of all the top tech stocks, Apple seems to be the only one struggling. Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft are all getting upgraded target prices and supposedly they’re doing just great even after their share gains last year. Apple saw no gains last year and even this year the small share gains it made are in jeopardy. Considering all the buybacks and increased dividends one would think the company value has found some sort of balance. It’s a real head-scratcher how the company can maintain profitability and is still said to be barely treading water. Where did that supposed trillion dollar market cap company go to?
They say that April is always a bad month for Apple, so if that’s the case, what’s the big deal? I guess they have to keep pushing that doom and gloom meme for Apple without any rest. No one seems to be happy with anything Apple tries to do. They have more of a beef about Apple than BlackBerry or H-P. What’s next? Are companies really required to tell their future plans to everyone.
Troll
We know from patents that Apple is plenty busy creating tech within a variety of fields! Check them out if you want a good idea of what’s going on at Infinity Loop.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/patents-applications/
Here are a few random subjects:
– Apple invents a new Liquid Metal Based 3D Printing Method for Rapid Product Prototyping
– Apple Invents new iPhone ‘Event Care’ Alert System that Could Automatically Call for Assistance in Emergencies
– Apple Continues to tweak their iPhone-Driven Head Mounted Display VR System
– Apple Invents a an Advanced Plenoptic Camera System to Assist in the Manufacturing of Quality Products
– Apple Patent Reveals Ultrasonic-Based 3D Touch
– Apple Invents a New 3D Depth Sequencing Technology
– Five Original Apple Watch Interface Patents Surface Covering Current & Future Ideas
– Apple’s Siri will one day respond to Sports Fans wanting to see Instant Replays or Pull up Stats during a Game
– New Apple Trend Shows Ongoing Research into Solid-State Battery Technology
– Apple Files a Patent in Europe for a Futuristic Home Automation System that’s Really Cool
– Apple introduces us to the Apple Ring in all its Glory
– An Apple Patent Comes to Light Covering a Dual-Axis Scanning Mirror for an Advanced 3D Optical System
… at Infinite Loop.
Yup, it’s my tea time. Caffeine deficit evident.
Where does Apple go from here? To the same place it’s always been going, to where no one has been before.
Looks like doctors might be prescribing extra stupid pills for jouranalists these days.
Yes sadly Apple will just have to console itself to raking in multiple billions every year. Just horrible for any company. Oh wait…
Click bait BS. Apple always seems lost to these guys who’re rightfully not privy to what’s going on behind the scenes until Apple reveals a new product. How shamelessly stupid can they repeatedly keep on being?
I know where Apple is going. Even a blind man sees where they’re headed: forward.
The quote attributed to Alexander the Great is a distortion. He did not complete his conquest of the world—at the Beas River in the Punjab region of India his weary men threatened mutiny, so he turned back.
Plutarch: Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse about an infinite number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, “Is it not worthy of tears,” he said, “that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?”