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by loueed 3238 days ago
Just because we can't publicly see what Apple is developing doesn't mean they're not being innovative. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, MagicLeap and Google are all betting big on Augmented Reality. Apple has acquired Primesence, the company behind the Kinect, HoloLens sensors and Project Tango. Everyone else bought licences to use Primesence IP.

In September, iOS 11 will allow 100s of millions of iPhones and iPads to use AR apps which is important for when they eventually want to sell these customers Smartglasses. I also expect Apple to build a next-gen Siri in the near future. One that can intelligently program its way out around natural language. Similar to the Samsung acquired Viv.ai

I plan on buying a Model 3 in a few years but I think Apple has bigger plans for autonomous driving. Their physical car project has been shelved, for now, turns out it's pretty hard to build a car company with in an already established computer company. Autonomous driving system in the works, which could put them in the position to partner with other car companies, implementing CarKit and Self driving branded by Apple.