Judging by some of Apple's patents that filter through the USPTO, there are clearly broader applications of those capabilities being studied deep within R&D. Ye

Judging by some of Apple's patents that filter through the USPTO, there are clearly broader applications of those capabilities being studied deep within R&D. Yet the institutional memory of the disastrous, nearly-bankrupting sprawl of the 1990s is certainly at the heart of Apple's resistance to commercialize a lot of the wilder things its researchers and designers come up with.