OK, I can understand this is an Apple centric forum, but have you noticed that
Apple seems to have missed the boat on many occasions? Without competition
or someone to look outside the Apple box, they will sometimes dig themselves
into a hole they can't get out of.
Wrong future tech direction vision:
The Apple Lisa, optical writing "disc" to replace hard drive,
Newton, not supporting a wired touchpad, etc.
Latecomer, no vision:
Motorola chips instead of intel, NeXT computers (high price for few instead of low price for masses like workstations taken over by PC's), 3.5"/4" displays when the industry/consumers were going towards 5.5". No wearable display (Google Glass, Project Morpheus, Oculus, etc) research or direction. VR will take over the industry and consumers in less than 6 months.
So you can't just stay back and wait, or you will miss the boat and be too late to the party, losing a lot of consumers and marketshare. Microsoft came in so late they have NO App market on their phones, even though they can support low level language stuff that is capable of overtaking google's android phones (stuck on slow java language needing lots of ram and cpu).
1080p is a sure technology back 5 years ago. You can bet your life
it will become popular back then. Apple missed the 1080p boat until now (4-5 years late).
4K is a sure thing TODAY! The prices on 4K TV monitors are dropping
so fast (like flash ram prices). If you are saying Apple is going to wait until 2016, then again they will miss the boat (like waiting until now to upgrade to 5.5 inch iPhone 6). Apple is going to turn into Microsoft missing the boat if they don't start pushing correct technology vision into their planning. They are not a pure fashion company. Remember how the Apple Cube looked nice, but it bombed. You gotta have good technology too, good technology in the correct direction.
So looks like Apple will be late on 4K for at least 2 years (if iPhone 6S doesn't include it). They will miss the wearable vision for at least 6 years, because they spent all their time on a small screen watch instead of VR large display you can carry with you.
The PS4 costs about $300 and it can play 4K video. That is a mass produced machine (will approach 150 million devices like PS2 or PS3). Where are you going to play those 4K House of Cards show on? 4K HD TV. House of Cards happens to be the highest rated show, and it is in 4K! The most popular video channel is YouTube... It plays 4K! If Apple is that behind the times, and spends all their time on a dying industry they helped kill (the watch) then I am flabbergasted at their lack of vision. At least stay true to technology that is useful. If you want to do wearable, do it close to the eyes, or have displays that can be projected or unrolled, so it is big enough. Oh well, at least they wisened up and made iPhone 6 4.7" or higher. Notice there is no iPhone 6 in 4 inch (they are dropping this size next year!). So 4K or no buy is something that is going to hurt them very fast if they are as stubborn about it as they were about the 4inch or less size in iPhone 5S and before.
ah good times...
