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Steve jobs has a tendency to identify technologies which are on the brink of succeeding, and bring them to the mass market. Examples are pixar, the iPhone, the
by tomerico 16y ago
Steve jobs has a tendency to identify technologies which are on the brink of succeeding, and bring them to the mass market.
Examples are pixar, the iPhone, the iPad and early exclusions (apple was the first to exclude floppies from their computers, and optical drive with the MacBook air)
In that sense it is only natural for apple to enter the robotic market. And with apple's secrecy, they may already be in it.
It will be very exciting if they will release a general purpose robot, with an app store, of course. I can just imagine paying $4.99 for the back massage app, and $0.99 for the fart app :)
Another positive effect that would happen if apple enters this market, is that all the tech companies will follow, and the technology will enter a rapid development stage, as the smartphones are in today.
- thornstevens 16y agoRobotics certainly needs somebody to kickstart it. It's hard to do when the biggest consumer robotics company is worth about $500 million. You need real scale. The kind of scale that Apple could instantly provide.
- jonhendry 16y agoIt's really more of a Google thing to do, though. Heck, they're already getting into robotics with the self-driving cars. Apple's only interest in robotics would be in automating its facilities, and Steve already did that at the NeXT factory.
- mikeryan 16y agoApple in the robotics market sure. But there's no way in hell they're buying (what is perceived as) a vacuum cleaner company.
- jonhendry 16y agoThey'd be more likely to buy a car company. Which isn't going to happen either. Steve Jobs doesn't clean gutters. He has designers find a way to make the gutters go away.