What's the future of iPhone?

[Cod3rror]

Apple mentioned that iPhone 5s had a "desktop class CPU". Do you think iPhone and iPad will eventually replace the Macbooks?

Eventually, in a few years iPhone will be as powerful as current Macbooks and Apple will have to take it somewhere.

 

[617aircav]

Apple mentioned that iPhone 5s had a "desktop class CPU". Do you think iPhone and iPad will eventually replace the Macbooks?

Eventually, in a few years iPhone will be as powerful as current Macbooks and Apple will have to take it somewhere.

and wont those macbooks become more powerful as well?

 

[Cod3rror]

and wont those macbooks become more powerful as well?

They will, but for general consumers it won't matter that much because after a certain point the power is just "good enough". iPhone on the other hand will be at a point of being able to run a full desktop OS.

 

[d-isanity]

By saying "desktop class cpu" it sounds to me like a marketing ploy. Everything at this stage is all relative. It could mean its the lowest end desktop cpu performance and Apple still classifys it as desktop cpu class.

 

[PDFierro]

It is a marketing ploy. No way can an iPhone do what Macs can do, not even 5 years from now.

Desktop-class architecture is referring to the 64-bit chip, but no way is it saying its as powerful as the Macs.

The future of the iPhone is that it will become more and more like a computer, but no way is it replacing them.

 

[nburwell]

The iPhone and iPad will never replace MacBooks. I don't see either device handling Lightroom and Photoshop software that I use on a daily basis to process my huge DSLR files.

 

[Stalyn]

In reality who cares. Just live the moment and stop thinking about the future. Remember, there is nobody at Palo Alto headquarters thinking about you.