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Dr. Bobsky
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Join Date: Feb 2015
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2019-01-15, 04:48

Before cell phones, telephones were white goods. You bought them once and then never again. We'll get there with cell phones too, eventually. Same with computers. Innovation isn't guaranteed within any one technological venture, sometimes you can get no better owing to physical limitations of the device or the people using them. We're no longer excited about steam engine improvements, but this drove technological innovation for more than 100 years. We're approaching this point the physical space of chip design, and barring a switch to small, trapped qubit computers, it isn't likely we're going to see a massive material improvement in innovation rate let alone feature additions in cell phones or personal computers.

What is Apple's vision? Jobs wanted to make life easier for people through computation, even to the point of wearable computers like phones. Vision accomplished, what's next? Making money for shareholders?
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