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Thank you, Apple. I’m looking forward to an even better Apple TV 4K experience. 

Remember when the iPhone was just a mobile phone? “…a wide screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a break through internet communications device …” oh and Steve tossed in a 2 MP camera just for fun.

Now the iPhone is really just a super mini portable computer (laptop) that takes photos. Oh and it makes phone calls just for fun.

What the author of this article seems to gloss over that the iPod was discontinued because the iPhone did everything and iPod does and more.  When consumers figured that out they stopped buying iPods. There was no market for it anymore, so it was discontinued. But the iPod totally exists still today. It’s called an iPhone or an iPad.  Maybe in the future a new device will have all the features of an iPhone and more and people will stop buying iPhones and start buying the next thing. Will it be AI powered?  Most certainly.  Will it be something you carry around?  Probably.   The important thing is that these are just devices.  Unless we have Wi-Fi and cellular chips and software installed in our brains and we walked around ourselves as a device, we’re always going to need/want something personal that we carry around with us to log in and connect with other people. What that device is and what it’s called is irrelevant.  Technology and innovation will drive new markets which is essentially with Eddie Que said.  It has never been the other way around.  But humans are physical creatures that like to have physical things.  So I suspect there will always be some kind of a thing that we carry around with us.  at least in my lifetime, that thing will be called an iPhone.  My parents called there devices a telephone and a phonebook.  Maybe in the future it’ll be called a neural hairnet and implant and we each have our own personal and virtual AI assistant that is on voice command.  Boy I love to be alive for that. Darn. 

I think it’ll be clear what’s going to happen with all this side loading and third-party App Stores with time.  if it’s good people will use it.  If it isn’t, they won’t.  The thing about a market is that if nobody comes to shop there then the market will die.  People vote with their wallets.  It’s nice that people will have the option to do things differently.  I just can’t see very many users who are comfortable with the App Store experience who would consider going outside of that secure market to save a little bit of money.  I certainly won’t and I haven’t even bothered to try it yet. if I have a need to purchase software for my Apple device, I will use Apple’s platform, the App Store, to make my purchase.  The App Store is convenient, easy to use and I know that Apple spends a lot of money making sure it’s a secure place for users to shop safely. it’s the same reason why I won’t put parts for a Toyota in my BMW.  it’s why I don’t put diesel in my gasoline car.  Perhaps, I’m strange that way.

I wonder what would fall out if Apple decided to get into the gaming market, like Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo, and just buy out Epic and all its technologies and incorporate them as an "Apple Product"?  I think that would be awesome for the players.  Then the Epic CEO could spend those energies defending those technologies as part of Apple against the competition, because he's clearly a fantastic pain in the backside.  David and Goliath should be playing co-op games together instead of playing games against each other.