After the iPad, what unicorns are there for Apple to unleash?

January 29, 2010 by admin  
Filed under Computers

We've had the iPhone, and now we've got the iPad. But that won't stop the fans inventing fresh products or services that theyr'e sure Apple has hidden in the cupboard OK, so people have drooled endlessly over the iPad. Yes, we've seen it. But it's time to lift our eyes a little higher and ask: how many unicorns does Apple have left in the cupboard? The unicorns in question being the unreleased but much-rumoured products or services we are always told Apple is "just about" to announce. Unlike many companies, it has a devoted following, who revere the products that it does release so highly that they then go on and make up their own that they'd like it to release in turn. In some cases, that's based on reality. For years, there were rumours that Apple, whose computers used processors from Motorola – and whose software was thus incompatible with processors made by Intel, which dominates the field – was secretly producing Intel-compatible versions of its products. The whispers said the project was called "Marklar". In March 2000 Wifredo Sanchez, an Apple software developer, posted a little note on the Apple Darwin bulletin board saying: "Wednesday – the whole thing compiled for the first time for both PowerPC and Intel." And then in 2005 Steve Jobs announced that Apple was abandoning Motorola – the chips were falling behind Moore's Law – and shifting to Intel. Even before then, I'd been in press conferences where Steve Jobs had been asked what "iPhone" was. (The first time was probably 2003.) Jobs crinkled up his face in disdain. "Iphone?" he said

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After the iPad, what unicorns are there for Apple to unleash?

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