Geek Posted October 11, 2011 Posted October 11, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/one-more-thing.jpeg" alt="One More Thing... & Steve Jobs" title="one-more-thing" width="620" height="384" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22253" /></p> <p>“<em>I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it.</em>”</p> <p>That is what Steve Jobs said in his <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/steve-jobs-resigns-as-ceo-of-apple/">resignation letter</a> from August, and now, despite his passing, we’re starting to understand why. Citing sources within Apple, the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046397/Steve-Jobs-dead-Apple-boss-left-plans-4-years-new-products.html">DailyMail</a> says that Steve Jobs carefully planned out <em>four years</em> of new products for the company to release. They specifically cite new iPod, iPad, iPhone, and MacBooks, and while these items are highly anticipated, they aren’t terribly surprising.</p> <p>So what should we <em>really</em> expect from Apple in the years to come? We can get an idea by looking at a recent piece by <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/09/apple-1000-engineers-chips/">TechCrunch</a>, citing an unnamed but “veteran” Silicon Valley CEO who says that Apple has 5% of it’s non-retail workforce devoted to chip design and architecture alone:</p> <blockquote><p> “Steve Jobs told me he has 1,000 engineers working on chips,” he said. “Getting low power and smaller is the key to everything.”</p></blockquote> <p>Why so many engineers on chip design? And how might low power and smaller chips translate into new products? </p> <blockquote><p>“form factor no longer becomes an issue,” explained the Silicon Valley CEO</p></blockquote> <p>Going further, TechCrunch quotes their own <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/26/one-more-thing/">MG Siegler</a> from a few months back, who was told by sources that future Apple products will “blow your mind”:</p> <blockquote><p>It’s the longer roadmap that should really be the grand finale in the Jobs’ fireworks show.</p> <p>Talking to sources in recent months, there has been one common refrain: that the things Apple is working on right now are the best things the company has ever done. These are things that will “blow your mind”, I’ve been told.</p></blockquote> <p>All of this adds up to quite a teaser, and so the future of Apple very well may be Job’s final “One More Thing…”.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/63Yfik4pdOM2ZJNHv3If8ST0fzU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/63Yfik4pdOM2ZJNHv3If8ST0fzU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/63Yfik4pdOM2ZJNHv3If8ST0fzU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/63Yfik4pdOM2ZJNHv3If8ST0fzU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=neU4BRsNWtI:CeTwTGgQBaA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=neU4BRsNWtI:CeTwTGgQBaA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=neU4BRsNWtI:CeTwTGgQBaA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=neU4BRsNWtI:CeTwTGgQBaA:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=neU4BRsNWtI:CeTwTGgQBaA:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=neU4BRsNWtI:CeTwTGgQBaA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=neU4BRsNWtI:CeTwTGgQBaA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/neU4BRsNWtI" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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