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On moderating expectations for Apple's 2012 (TUAW)

Just after the year-end retrospectives clear newsrooms, speculators begin
pounding away at the forecasts for the coming year. Every year we see wide-
eyed imaginings about what Apple "could" do in the coming year, and every year
someone comes out with a list that sounds just as outlandish as the "too cheap
to meter" claims about nuclear power from the 1950s.

Time Techland's Tim Bajarin looks at "five industries Apple can disrupt in the
near future," and the piece is typical of the overly-optimistic expectations
people always seem to sprout this time of year. I'll skip over the first
section related to TVs, because it's the only halfway-plausible section of the
piece, and dive right into the "meal in a pill" musings that follow.

"Imagine if Apple began working with the auto companies directly and, in
extreme circumstances, was perhaps able to get a 7-inch iPad into these cars,"
Bajarin muses, managing in one sentence to combine speculation about an
industry Apple's shown no interest in entering with speculation about a
product Apple's shown no interest in building. He imagines iOS device
integration with car systems that would allow for Siri-activated access to
things like navigation, ...

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