Report: Steve Jobs Left Behind Plans For Four Years of Apple Products

[Ironman273]

Report: Steve Jobs Left Behind Plans For Four Years of Apple Products

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs has died, but his fingerprints will likely be seen in products for years to come. The Daily Mail reports that Jobs left behind plans for at least four generations worth of iPads, iPhones, iPods, and MacBooks.

In order to protect the future of the company he co-founded in 1976, Jobs spent a year preparing plans for four more cycles of these gadgets, the Daily Mail said.

Despite his declining health, Jobs also fought for the approval of the plans for Apple's new massive spaceship-like headquarters in Cupertino. In June, Jobs appeared before the Cupertino City Council to outline plans for the 3.1 million square foot circular structure that will house 12,000 Apple employees.

Additionally, Jobs was overseeing work on iCloud, the Daily Mail said.

Jobs' successor Tim Cook on Tuesday announced Apple's fifth generation smartphone, the iPhone 4S.

Steve Jobs died Wednesday at the age of 56. His family said in a statement that he died peacefully.

Source: PC Mag

I wonder if this is why we got the 4S? Maybe there is a 5 in Cupertino, it's just being saved to milk the products for a longer time...

[Motoko.]

What is this guy, Aeolia Schenburg?

[s1k3sT]

Title says four years, article says four generations and four cycles; maybe they all mean the same thing. Either way, this is one of the worst symtoms of captialism imho. I wonder how much quicker technology could advance if it wasn't for planned obsolescence.

[Lachlan]

This on its own shows you how selfish apple is.. if this is true they show how slowly they evolve products to suck ever dollar out of their consumers.. 4 years of generations of ipods.. man apple has turned into microsoft at the top of the XP sales where they thought they could just slowly innovate and never be beat.. This will eventually lead to the downfall of apple until they start pumping out innovation like they were up until the ipad..

[BigDaddy]

I imagine Apple would release AppleTV next year with the iPhone and iPad being able to control it with some kind of an iRemote app.

And the next iteration of these products would most likely be powerful and mature enough to match or even topple gaming consoles, i.e. xbox and ps3, with iPhone or iPad as the game controller. That would literally create an Apple living room.. and next Apple revolution would probably happen in the kitchen, with iFridge and AppleOven. :laugh:

[grik]

I think meaning they are ready they dont mean built or cost effective...

Every company as the products almost defined for 3 or 4 years. Intel as CPU´s 10years ahead, Samsung monitors for 5 or 6 years ahead, 3D with no glasses, and they still milk 40yo tecnology.

So i wouldnt take this so serious..

[majortom1981]

I would think it would be more like this is what I would like my products be able to do and look like in the next 4 years. Not an exact product lineup for the next 4 years.

[Ace]

if this is true they show how slowly they evolve products to suck ever dollar out of their consumers..

Small incremental improvements is how Apple has always worked. It's not so much about sucking every dollar from consumers, but shipping products that work straight out of the box and on time.

Just look at Motorola's Xoom or RIMs PlayBook for proof of this.

[Ironman273]

Also, I'm sure that they're already sitting on next generation stuff because they have to test it (like any other company). The generation after that is probably in concept phase. 2 more generations are probably just ideas. Sounds reasonable, actually.

[Anibal P]

Also, I'm sure that they're already sitting on next generation stuff because they have to test it (like any other company). The generation after that is probably in concept phase. 2 more generations are probably just ideas. Sounds reasonable, actually.

Yes all companies have roadmaps to what they want to put out in the future, this sounds more like he has already set in stone what these 4 generations will be and all management has to do is make it happen. Pretty sad he didn't trust his own people to continue "his" vision of Apple products, God forbid they come up with something better than what he envisioned. And yes, I do believe that Apple is capable of producing better products at lower costs had Jobs not insisted on the nickel and dime your customers strategy.

[Elliott]

I imagine Apple would release AppleTV next year with the iPhone and iPad being able to control it with some kind of an iRemote app.

They beat you to it by a few years. :p

[BoredBozirini]

Yes all companies have roadmaps to what they want to put out in the future, this sounds more like he has already set in stone what these 4 generations will be and all management has to do is make it happen. Pretty sad he didn't trust his own people to continue "his" vision of Apple products, God forbid they come up with something better than what he envisioned. And yes, I do believe that Apple is capable of producing better products at lower costs had Jobs not insisted on the nickel and dime your customers strategy.

If you think Apple will start lowering their prices now that Steve Jobs is not its leader, think again.

[Anibal P]

If you think Apple will start lowering their prices now that Steve Jobs is not its leader, think again.

There's a minuscule chance that they will, at least we can hope.

[nfiniti9]

There's a minuscule chance that they will, at least we can hope.

Actually generally in a very successful company like Apple when an important founder dies, they tend to stick to the book he wrote almost to the point of failure, ignoring innovation and any change that could lead to improvement. Apple will milk what he has left the best they can.