Comments on: Apple Turns 35: Where Does It Go From Here?

By: MisterK

MisterK — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:22:02 +0000

The reliance on a traditional computer to sync our iPads and iPhones is a temporary inconvenience – one that I believe will go away shortly (hopefully this year). You see, Apple makes the hardware (like Dell), the OS (like Microsoft), the software (like Adobe), services (like Google), is the media distributer (like Comcast), and the owns the store (like Best Buy). If there is absolutely any problem whatsoever with the iOS device, they will be seen as responsible. Having a backup solution on these devices isn’t just a nice-to-have because their failure means negative press and long angry lines at the Apple Store. This is why we must sync our iPads to the computer for now. I’m hoping that this data centre has something to do with all this cloud backup. If you lose your data, Apple has no one else to point the finger at so it is now imperative that you can get back anything you had. iTunes allowing you to re-download media will be part of this; the app store allowing you to re-download software is part of this; they have to sort out your personal files and documents before the USB cord is cut.

We will have probably always have personal computers because there is no real replacement for the hardware keyboard. This input is the only thing that the touchscreen device just can’t beat. The touch-screen hinderances (that our current tablet devices don’t have the horsepower, storage, or larger applications of their PC counterparts) is already being negated with faster processors, cloud storage, and more mature apps.

Voice control with natural language will be a huge advancement, but it will be temporary. I see some sort of “mind-typing” as the REAL next big thing. I’m being completely serious. Communicating on a tablet must be as fast as a keyboard and more private/anonymous than voice control. When that happens, the traditional PC can truly vanish.

By: AK

AK — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:43:24 +0000

What’s NeXT for Apple? I guess it needs to evolve from a hit-product company (that relies on the “next best thing”) to a one that provides also key services people would pay for. The cloud would be a good start in that direction. Clearly Apple needs to find a way bring cash in whether or not their last product launched is a hit. Take Microsoft for instance, recession or not, the enterprise world cannot do without Windows and Office. Apple NEED to be as indispensable for consumers. This is their NeXT challenge and it takes perhaps another person than Steve Jobs to solve that equation. I dare to say that Jobs’ time has perhaps passed.

By: Mob Matt Hardy

Mob Matt Hardy — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:20:27 +0000

Apple . What an incredible company with great products?

In my opinion, Steve Jobs is very important for Apple because of charisma, innovation, leadership and vision. But times are different now form those when Steve came back and reseurrected Apple from ashes.

Apple is now a company with a stronger brand, that goes over the geeks and is more linked to marketing.

Apple is a strong company with cutting edge technologies and more patents that can turn in billion dollars ideas.

Apple has now an industrial approach for going live.

Apple has also grown or acquired lot of professionals and managers that can continue the business. They will go a long way forward for sure

By: Macy

Macy — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 08:33:48 +0000

Who knows? Apple is the top innovative company. I’ll be here in the next 35 years to find out.

By: Hamranhansenhansen

Hamranhansenhansen — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 04:59:04 +0000

I don’t think Wozniak was excluded from Murdoch’s PC-inventing comment at all. Wozniak also does not take anything away from Jobs on the Apple II, saying he wouldn’t have even done it, and he wouldn’t have made it consumer-friendly. Jobs even coined the term “personal computer.” But Murdoch likely includes the whole arc, not just the spark: the Mac, which is the first PC most people today would recognize as such; NeXT which spawned the Web; the PowerBook; and even the iMac, which started the modern consumerization of the PC. Jobs is the central figure in the whole story. Yes, it’s amazing he has no fear of killing the past.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:03:23 +0000

We may not be in a truly Post-PC era yet, but we are absolutely moving in that direction. Getting devices like the iPhone and iPad to a point where they are more independent and not as reliant on a Mac or PC will be a huge step in that direction, as will faster and more consistent access to data in the cloud. None of this will happen overnight; it will be an evolution, one that is well on its way.