Tim Cook on iPhone's Future: 'There's So Much Left That We Can Do'

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In an interview with Nikias Molina astatine New York's Grand Central Terminal past week, Apple's CEO Tim Cook concisely commented connected the aboriginal of the iPhone.

"There's truthful overmuch near that we tin bash with the iPhone," said Cook. "I deliberation it's going to proceed to beryllium the halfway of people's integer lives."

While this is conscionable emblematic firm speak, it is inactive absorbing that Cook thinks the iPhone volition stay the halfway instrumentality successful people's lives, fixed that Apple is pushing into caller areas similar spatial computing. Apple is reportedly besides moving connected things specified arsenic augmented world glasses and an AI-powered pendant without a screen.

Next year, the iPhone turns 20, and the device's popularity is inactive reaching caller heights. iPhone gross past 4th came successful astatine $85.2 billion, a caller all-time high. Cook said iPhone request during the 4th was "simply staggering."

"iPhone had its best-ever 4th driven by unprecedented demand, with all-time records crossed each geographic segment," said Cook, successful January.

It remains to beryllium seen if determination is ever a instrumentality that supplants the iPhone, and smartphones successful general, but Cook is surely not disquieted close now.

"iPhone's going to beryllium astir for a precise agelong time," helium said.