AI, Mobile, and Eveything Around the Cloud

In the past, future updates from Apple has always helped provide clues on what will be coming as far as new features for iOS and newer hardware as well.  This time around, 2014 updates for iPhones and iPads could also be hidden in future iOS updates as well.  This will be particular true for beta versions of iOS 8 that will presumably be released and be made available to developers at this year's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference.  And as someone who could never wait, I've been signing up as a developer (you have to be a paying developer) to get my hands on these early releases.  This year, we'll be watching out for information that might provide us to what possible screen resolutions Apple could be working on and wanting developers to focus on.  An increase in resolution would always be a tell-tale sign that Apple has a bigger screen iPhone on the works for release later this fall.  It will not clue us in on the size.  Apple is very unlikely to jus...

We're sixty-nine days into the new year, 2014.  I can still call it a "new year", right? I ask that because that new year smell is wearing off if it not not already for some folks and we are still waiting to see what exciting new products Apple has in-stored for us going forward.  After all, Tim Cook promised us that.  And that promise had been going on for a better part of a year stretching back into 2013.  All I'm saying is this, it's unlikely that Apple will back load the second half of 2014 with a bunch of new stuff because that would just to too much even for Apple to handle.  On top of that, new iOS gears like the iPhone 6, even if it has a 5" or 6" screen or refreshed iPads, or new Mac updates are not really new products in my book. Some Apple fans will argue that point.  For me, new products means a spanking new Apple TV that isn't just a hardware improvement but allows me to watch a plethora of new video services or play games either with my...