Here we are again waiting for the next iPhone release from Apple as we have 10 times before, this time we are on the iPhone 8, and people are wondering what incremental technology it might have to tempt us to upgrade our most valuable personal technology device. Well, rumors say that this next version will have more FRT or facial recognition technology, allowing you to lock or unlock your phone simply by recognizing your face, maximum security. Or is that it? Perhaps this takes your personal privacy down a notch? Think on that for a minute.
In the meantime, I’d like to address a more serious issue, which is that it’s been 10 years since the first iPhone, according to Google Search: On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving major media outlets. attention. Jobs announced that the first iPhone would be released that same year. On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was launched.
Since then all we got was incremental gains, smaller, fancier, bigger, better, faster, more memory, longer battery life, etc. Of course, the changes at the beginning were more incredible than in recent years, I think this is because Steve Jobs demanded it. So let me ask; Where is the holographic iPhone, capable of projecting, scanning and recording objects in 3D? Steve would have brought it by now, but Captain Tim Cook is not a pirate like Jobs.
To answer this question, you may want to read about the philosophy of innovation and the history of Silicon Valley. Therefore, I recommend reading “The Intel Trinity” by Michael S. Malone, a former reporter for the Mercury News in Silicon Valley. There’s also a nice YouTube video lecture of Malone and various interviews.
Also, there was an interesting article on the Singularity Institute online news on February 14, 2017 titled; “Holograms are no longer the stuff of science fiction” by Peter Rejcek, who said:
“A study published online in Nature Photonics by a team of researchers in Korea has developed a 3D holographic display that they say works more than 2,600 times better than existing technologies. Meanwhile, researchers led by a team in Australia claimed in Optica magazine that they have invented a miniature device that creates the highest quality holographic images to date. The papers were published three days apart last month.”
The reality is that there is no reason why the holographic iPhone doesn’t exist yet, we have the technology and it can be miniaturized with the right R&D funding, and Apple has the money to do it. I think they’re not because they’re too busy riding this cash cow and have lost touch with the vision that Steve Job brought to Apple, that it doesn’t have to die with his person. Apple had better do something amazing with its future iPhone releases or the company will succumb to the competition and the stock will fall, and it still has a long way to go. Please consider all this.
Recommended additional personal research for you:
(1) YouTube video; “Sci-fi holograms one step closer” by ANU TV, January 23, 2017