Tim Cook: new categories of products coming in 2014

The last two months have been very challenging for Apple, considering that the company has updated a number of its devices, including iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro. Missing now for a completely new product, the good news is that next year could be incorporated unpublished categories of devices on the market by Apple.

Cook's answer to an analyst, interested to know if 2014 will see the introduction of novel products and innovative:

In terms of new product categories, in particular, if you look at the skills that Apple has the hardware / software and services, and the incredible ecosystem of applications, it is clear that n o one has a set of skills of this kind. We obviously believe we can use our skills to build other major categories of products within the areas where we are not present today.  We're pretty sure of that.

Words of this kind immediately recall two devices, iWatch and the TV by Apple. The latest rumors talk about a team consisting of 100 engineers currently working on the development of smartwatch made ​​in Cupertino, while as regards the entries of a hypothetical full-sized TV, the latest speculation affirmed their intention to sell two models from 4K 55 and 65 inches during 2014.

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The Tablet in school is not very successful in the USA

The United States is one step to us from the technological point of view, it is not a surprise, but that does not always translate into a disadvantage. Our programs of digitization of information must take into account the fact that resulting unsatisfactory in the USA, pilot projects that do not lead to the desired results and predictable unexpected device as soon as they end up in the hands of children unwary.

Among the examples we have cited the " Amplify ", which provides 73,000 Android tablet for the educational use of the same name, directed to children under 12 years (by a company of Rupert Murdoch). Much went inevitably damaged after a short time and the supply has been suspended, it does not take a genius to realize that at that age are necessary rugged-zed models, resistant to everything! Different speech instead for the program " iAchieve "carried out in Texas, 70,000 students provided the iPad have not reached the expected level of knowledge through the use of this digital program, now discontinued as ineffective.

A tile for the administration of Los Angeles that I put to spent $ 30 million for the purchase of iPad with Retina Display intended to 300,000 students around the district, a budget issue that has already created quite a few problems since it was paid $ 700. The next problem is called security , because among this student population will not be hard to find the most capable and able to bypass firewall restrictions from, coming to unblock Facebook, YouTube and portals possibly even more inappropriate.

Not all schools will then support this crazy shopping, we think of Windows tablet much more economical at this time, even more functional in some cases. There are also positives in this whole affair, the idea of ​​one-to-one tablet makes it possible for students to take home the job, tasks to be accomplished using software dedicated to that theme, but at what price?

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