Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Great Expectations

By: Connie Guglielmo
www.forbes.com


No iPhone 5S until September or October. A smartTV at the end of 2013. Larger-screen iPhone and smartwatch in 2014. A new killer service around mobile payments. A China Mobile deal for the iPhone – finally.
Those are some of the takeaways from comments made by Apple CEO Tim Cook yesterday after the company reported second-quarter earnings. To be sure, Cook never mentioned the iPhone 5S or said anything about a smartTV or smartwatch or a mobile payments service. What he did say is that Apple is “ hard at work on some amazing new hardware, software and services that we can’t wait to introduce this fall and throughout 2014” in “exciting new product categories.”
And in response to a question about whether Apple might create a version of its smartphone with adisplay that’s larger than the 4-inch used in the iPhone 5, Cook said, basically, not right now. “Our competitors have made some “significant tradeoffs” in many of these areas in order to ship a larger screen. We would not ship a large-display iPhone while these tradeoffs exist.”

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