Chris

On 08/10/2011 00:35, Your Name wrote:
> According to a Daily Mail story (for what that's worth) via MacRumors.com,
> Steve Jobs had already laid out the at least rough roadmap for the next
> four years worth of products ...
>
> And the Daily Mail reports that Jobs is claimed to have left
> behind four years' worth of product plans across Apple's
> product lines, leaving the company well-stocked as it looks
> toward the future.
>
> He has also been overseeing the development of
> the delayed iCloud project, which will allow
> Apple users to store their music, photos and
> other documents remotely and masterminding
> updated versions of the iPod, iPad, iPhone
> and MacBooks, ensuring at least four years¹
> worth of products are in the pipeline,
> according to Apple sources.
>
> Those designs will obviously have to evolve to respond to
> the changing technological and competitive landscape, but it
> is clear that Jobs was looking toward the future up until
> the very end, leaving behind a legacy of focus on design and
> a company culture infused with the ideals to carry that
> legacy forward into the future.
>
>
> Using current release trends and depending on when those "four years"
> start, it would possibly bring Apple up to about the iPhone 6S and the
> iPad 6:
>
> Year 0 2011 iPhone 4S iPad 2
> Year 1 2012 iPhone 5 iPad 3
> Year 2 2013 iPhone 5S iPad 4
> Year 3 2014 iPhone 6 iPad 5
> Year 4 2015 iPhone 6S iPad 6
iCloud is almost as successful as the MobileMe launch, email send from
Macs etc not working at the moment. Glad OSX and iOS devices work very well.

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Chris