Eddy Cue, a senior vice president of Apple services, today gave an ominous warning that the iPhone can go to the iPod in 10 years. The reason you can guess is artificial intelligence.
The current ones have difficulties … We are not a oil company, we are not toothpaste – these are things that will last forever … You may not need an iPhone in 10 years.
Cue continued to say that the best thing that Apple did was kill an iPod, and the movement he said was brave. “Why would you kill a golden goose,” he added.
This may seem a stupid thing for Apple, considering that more than half of his revenues is the sale of an iPhone. But Cue calls AI a “huge technological change” and suggests that such changes can curse companies that once seemed unattainable. “When I got to the Silicon Valley,” he said, “all the best companies or most successful companies,” he mentioned HP, Sun Microsystems and Intel – “either they do not exist today, or they are much smaller and much less influential.”