- Apple Services Chief Eddy Cue has suggested that users may not need an iPhone for 2035
- The statement was made as part of the testimony in the remedies of Google antimonopoolio remedies on May 7
- In context, comments refer to the ascending tide of AI
Will we always use smartphones? It is a question that every fan of technology has asked. It makes sense that technology continues to evolve, but a reality without a phone is a bit difficult to imagine in a world where these devices are used for everything, payable their groceries to transmit their favorite music.
However, a new statement from a high -ranking Apple executive suggests that the era of the iPhone could come to an end before what would be expected.
When testimony in the Google Search Remedios Remedios Test on May 7, Apple SVP and Head of Services Eddy Cue said: “You may not need an iPhone within 10 years.”
The comment was made in reference to the changing nature of technology and the relative impermanence of technological products compared to other goods.
As Phonerena reports, comments can be taken in a broader context as a recognition that the increase in the development of AI could even force the largest technological companies, such as Apple, to adapt to unforeseen changes.
Although the iPhone is he The Icon of the Apple Products portfolio, the IT and the Smart Telephone Industry are still young compared to other industries, said “oil” and “toothpaste” as examples.
The expected launch of the iPhone 17 family at the end of this year will mark 18 years of the iPhone, and with Apple, offering a robust set of AI tools through Apple Intelligence, it is not beyond the scope of the possibility that the software has priority over hardware in the coming years.
In fact, some device manufacturers have already made attempts to produce Ai-Firca Gadgets devices, although these have not generally been able to take off; The fellow Rabbit R1 AI, for example, landed in our list of the greatest technological failures last year.
Looking at the iPhone specifically, now it is quite rare to see great jumps in the hardware power between individual generations.
The addition of the camera control button and the increase of 8 GB of RAM for the iPhone 16 family marked the largest hardware update for Apple phones in years, but we only need to look back in the small jump from the iPhone 13 to the iPhone 14 to see much smaller change gradations.
Apple Intelligence, however, is not counted on annual release cycles: Apple can update it as and when you consider it appropriate. Of course, the hardware must still be able to execute these AI tools, but otherwise, Apple has much more freedom to accelerate on the side of the software of things.
As CNBC reports, Apple already obtains approximately one fifth of its services income, and although Apple Intelligence is currently free, there is nothing that prevents the technological giant from adding premium or copper levels due to the characteristics existing in the future.
So, although honestly it seems unlikely that iPhones disappear by 2035, there are hardware launches to admit software developments and AI services seem a fairly realistic result.
For now, the era of the iPhone is still ongoing: be sure to see our list of the best iPhones if you are thinking of collecting one yourself. Do you think the iPhones will be about 10 years? Let us know in the comments.
