But they need to do something. iOS is getting desperately long-in-tooth. Aside from a slightly longer screen, very little has changed about the hardware in 3+ years now. I'm not counting them out, but I starting to get a little antsy.
You're a geek, of course you are getting antsy. Geeks want everything to be new and fresh and totally magically awesome with every release.
Apple doesn't design for geeks, especially with their devices. The iphone etc are for the non geeks and they generally doesn't want to relearn all the time. They love that the UI doesn't really change, because change scares them. They don't care about these 'baby step' hardware changes because they aren't doing anything insane with their tech anyway. So to them nothing is long-in-tooth or outdated so long as it works
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interesting that he has the iphone being moved back to the June product slot...
my question is, What product will be launched in the spring? -that used to be the ipads domain- but now that is up in the air.
Where's the law that says there has to be something? Some of the analysts seem to think such a thing exists and are trying to 'sources say' a guess at what but they would be wrong.
Apple may not be releasing anything this spring.
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Wait, since a new version of iOS usually launches along side a new iPhone, maybe we'll see a sneak peak and a developer release during the rumored TV media even in March. Right?
Not if Apple sticks to recent history which is to show both the iOS preview and Mac OS preview at WWDC (an event created for developers) which is typically in June.
if Apple was going to shift WWDC to March we likely would have heard officially by now so developers could make plans to attend.
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Is that actually Apples roadmap? Or is that just a guest by this guy Jeff
If it is said by an Apple employee then it is the roadmap. Not a "sources within" said but a real press release or on a stage with names said.
Anything else by anyone, especially an analyst, is a guess.
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How many times does apple need to say they're not making it before people will finally get the hint?
They will never get the hint. They just cite all the times that Steve Jobs said no to something and then it happened. Like the video ipod etc.
Judgement Day will come and the machines will take over the world and the analysts etc will still be saying that Apple is working on a real TV, bigger screen iPhones etc.