Apple moving towards handheld computers with iPhone
With the release of the iPhone, Apple may well be moving away from the desktop market to more handheld based solutions, a case in point is the iPhone. The iPhone runs a mobile version of Mac OSX which could pave the way for future devices, like Apple based PDAs, Newton, anyone?
SeekingAlpha spoke to a sales clerk in an Apple store, don’t ask me why, but they did. He hinted at the fact that the iPhone is going to have a keyboard and a mouse and all kinds of docks and accessories that will give it some functionality as a full computer. He went on to agree that there will be no desktop computers, cell phones, stereos, just the iPhone with input and output devices.
That might be true for Apple as they have been moving away from computers and more towards mobile devices so it might become a case of making computers to support their devices, not the other way around. It’s possible but I doubt it. Sure, Apple could make its products work better with PCs but that’s not likely to happen either.
I don’t put much stock into anything a sales clerk says, not even at the Apple store. But it’s not so far fetched to think that Apple will make more non-phone mobile devices in the future that are PDA-like in nature and are powered by a mobile version of OSX.
These devices (if they come to market) will probably have WiFi connectivity but WiFi still needs to spread out a little more before we can all be truly mobile.
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