Apple's Eddy Cue: AI Could Replace iPhone in 10 Years

AI exertion is advancing truthful rapidly that the iPhone could beryllium outdated successful the adjacent decade, Apple services main Eddy Cue said contiguous erstwhile testifying successful the Google vs. DoJ antitrust lawsuit (via Bloomberg).


"You whitethorn not request an ‌iPhone‌ 10 years from now, arsenic brainsick arsenic it sounds," Cue said. He was referring to the mode that AI is apt to germinate successful the coming years, and however wearables combined with intuitive AI functionality could regenerate accepted smartphones.

The ‌iPhone‌ is inactive Apple's cardinal gross driver, and Apple truthful acold hasn't been capable to find its adjacent large merchandise that could regenerate the ‌iPhone‌ arsenic main wealth maker. Apple canceled its car project, and its archetypal VR headset hasn't sold well. Apple is present focusing connected robotics, and is continuing to enactment connected wearables that could yet pb to augmented world astute glasses that would beryllium a viable ‌iPhone‌ alternative.

Cue was, of course, conscionable speculating, and Apple inactive has aggregate ‌iPhone‌ innovations that are acceptable to travel retired implicit the adjacent respective years. Apple could debut its archetypal foldable ‌iPhone‌ arsenic soon arsenic adjacent year, and successful 2027, Apple is looking to present an all-display ‌iPhone‌ that has nary cutouts for the camera oregon Face ID. So far, AI-based wearables person not successfully replaced smartphones. The Humane AI Pin was a failure, and the Rabbit R1 was besides lambasted for mediocre show erstwhile it launched past year. Other companies are besides moving connected AI screen-free wearables, but nary person caught connected arsenic of yet.

Cue was testifying owed to Apple's hunt motor woody with Google, which is apt to beryllium prohibited arsenic portion of the antitrust remedies that Google is facing to code its dominance successful the hunt market.

Cue said that AI hunt solutions are poised to regenerate accepted hunt engines, and Apple is considering adding AI hunt tools from companies similar OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity to Safari successful the aboriginal arsenic options for radical to select. Apple stands to suffer astatine slightest $20 cardinal per twelvemonth if Google isn't capable to wage to beryllium the default Safari hunt engine.
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