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In 10-years Your IPhone Won't Be A Phone Anymore
wsj ^ | June 25, 2017 | Christopher Mims

Posted on 06/25/2017 6:56:33 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

It's 2027, and you're walking down the street, confident you'll arrive at your destination even though you don't know where it is. You may not even remember why your device is telling you to go there.

There's a voice in your ear giving you turn-by-turn directions and, in between, prepping you for this meeting. Oh, right, you're supposed to be interviewing a dog whisperer for your pet-psychiatry business. You arrive at the coffee shop, look around quizzically, and a woman you don’t recognize approaches. A display only you can see highlights her face and prints her name next to it in crisp block lettering, Terminator-style. Afterward, you'll get an automatically generated transcript of everything the two of you said.

As the iPhone this week marks the 10th anniversary of its first sale, it remains one of the most successful consumer products in history. But by the time it celebrates its 20th anniversary, the "phone" concept will be entirely uprooted: That dog-whisperer scenario will be brought to you even if you don’t have an iPhone in your pocket.

Sure, Apple AAPL 0.45% may still sell a glossy rectangle. (At that point, iPhones may also be thin and foldable, or roll up into scrolls like ancient papyri.) But the suite of apps and services that is today centered around the physical iPhone will have migrated to other, more convenient and equally capable devices—a "body area network" of computers, batteries and sensors residing on our wrists, in our ears, on our faces and who knows where else. We'll find ourselves leaving the iPhone behind more and more often.

Trying to predict where technology will be in a decade may be a fool's errand, but how often do we get to tie up so many emerging trends in a neat package? VIDEO


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apple; iphone; telecom
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To: clamper1797

Me: You are the one that called all bikers pedophiles ...

You: My fellow ALR and Patriot Guard riders will get a laugh out of that.

I wouldn’t laugh. They would probably boot you out for calling them pedophiles.


61 posted on 06/26/2017 9:49:26 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: tubebender
Friend of mine lost his iPhone how does he find it...

If he turned on "FindMyiPhone" he merely needs to log onto his AppleID account from any computer with his AppleID and password and go to the FindMyiPhone tab. . . it will show the current location within three feet.

If he has an AppleWatch, there is a button on the Watch that will cause the iPhone to play an audible chime every time it is pushed. If the iPhone is in the house, he will hear it. Swipe up on the AppleWatch screen to expose the control screen; the ping connected iPhone button is there.

62 posted on 06/26/2017 9:54:03 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: clamper1797

“My fellow ALR and Patriot Guard riders will get a laugh out of that. “

Do your fellow ARL and Patriot Guard riders also support the pimping pedophile gangs?

I hope not. For the life of me I cannot understand how any decent biker could support the biker gangs.


63 posted on 06/26/2017 10:23:40 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

I’m still waiting for where I called bikers pedophiles ... I take back that I thought you were a 70+ female. Though you may be female I’m starting to doubt that your over 13. If you are over 70 ... I would get checked for dementia if I were you


64 posted on 06/26/2017 10:52:44 AM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: clamper1797

“I’m still waiting for where I called bikers pedophiles ...”

I copied your post and posted it to you with comments a few posts back.


65 posted on 06/26/2017 11:13:21 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator
You must have a reading comprehension problem TG ... when I said

You: AKA ... Any and all Bikers ... that was to say that you HATE Any and all bikers.

Don't worry TG ... you may learn to read better as you attend high school...

Does your mom know you are on the computer ?

66 posted on 06/26/2017 11:23:34 AM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: tubebender

Apples website for that is actually quite excellent.


67 posted on 06/26/2017 11:23:43 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: clamper1797

BTW TG ... That’s ALR ... American Legion Riders ... not ARL as you posted.


68 posted on 06/26/2017 11:28:53 AM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: clamper1797

I see that you have revised your text to make it sound like you were quoting me!. Good grief!

You said it.


69 posted on 06/26/2017 11:39:41 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: clamper1797
"BTW TG ... That’s ALR ... American Legion Riders ... not ARL as you posted."

You are right. I revise my post.

Do your fellow ARL ALR and Patriot Guard riders also support the pimping pedophile gangs?

70 posted on 06/26/2017 11:41:48 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: PreciousLiberty
A new crop of reactor designs are looking really good, and largely solve the “problem” of nuclear waste.

Perception will be hard to over come.

MIR used to be called NMRI guess why the dropped the N?

Nuclear radiated food could save millions of lives but lefties don't care enough to even look past the words Nuclear Radiation. Let them eat Twinkies the never spoil.

The electricity won’t be free, but it should be less than five cents per KWH.

Tesla! The man Einstein thought was the smartest man in the world, maybe there is something there we just haven't found.

Magnetism performs work when to magnets are in opposing positions yet most scientists will admit any work is being performed, which is what so may hobbyists are trying to build magnetic motors. Many wondered to be performed.

I remember my first crystal radio there is a lot of magic in one of those.

71 posted on 06/26/2017 11:54:16 AM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: TexasGator

My quote was to say that YOU HATE all bikers ... which is pretty much backed up by a multitude of YOUR posts over the years and MANY FR bikers who have argued with you. If anyone changed it to mean something else ... look in the mirror.


72 posted on 06/26/2017 12:22:01 PM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: clamper1797

“My quote was to say that YOU HATE all bikers ... “

Your post was to define all bikers as pimping pedophile gangsters.


73 posted on 06/26/2017 12:33:50 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: clamper1797

“and MANY FR bikers who have argued with you. “

The few that have argued with me are supporters of the motorcycle gangs. If you have an argument with me, it is because I argue AGAINS the pimping pedophile motorcycle gangs.

Where do you stand?


74 posted on 06/26/2017 12:38:22 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: clamper1797

“My quote was to say that YOU HATE all bikers ... which is pretty much backed up by a multitude of YOUR posts over the years “

And I have to endure the lies of those that support the pimping pedophile motorcycle gangs. Good Grief. What has FR become.


75 posted on 06/26/2017 12:39:37 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TalonDJ

He found the iPhone in one of the cars he had already searched twice so the find me feature must have worked for him.

Thanks to all who replied...


76 posted on 06/26/2017 12:48:16 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: clamper1797

Where do you stand?

A. With the decent bikers and against the pimping pedophile gangsters, or

B. Supporter of the pimping pedophile motorcycle gangs.


77 posted on 06/26/2017 1:10:27 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: itsahoot

“Magnetism performs work when to magnets are in opposing positions yet most scientists will admit any work is being performed, which is what so may hobbyists are trying to build magnetic motors. “

Not sure I follow that ...


78 posted on 06/26/2017 1:13:45 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

The question is ... where do you stand TG. I doubt you would know the difference


79 posted on 06/26/2017 1:54:43 PM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: TexasGator
Your post was to define all bikers as pimping pedophile gangsters.

Only in your tiny little gator mind ...

80 posted on 06/26/2017 2:03:34 PM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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