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While Jony Ive’s group was secretly working on the iPad, Steve Jobs was telling the public and press that Apple had no intention of releasing a tablet. “Tablets appeal to rich guys with plenty of other PCs and de- vices already,” he said publicly. But Jobs was dissembling. “Steve never lost his desire to do a tablet,” said Phil Schiller. In fact, while Jony’s design team was developing the iPhone, they were also actively working on tablets. Jobs was just waiting for the right time to bring a tablet to market.

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One of the tactics that Apple likes to use to edge out the competition would be to invest heavily in machinery, buying themselves an exclusive deal or locking out their competitors due to them placing many orders, but how much has Apple spent so far on creating exclusive deals for unique supply chain machinery? Well according to a report from Bloomberg, they claim that Apple has committed themselves to spending a whopping $10.5 billion in 2014 on new manufacturing technology.

The report states that the money will be going towards “equipment to polish the new iPhone 5c’s colorful plastic, laser and milling machines to carve the MacBook’s aluminum body, and testing gear for the iPhone and iPad camera lens.” Apparently the design of Apple products are so unique that unique machinery is needed in order to make it, at least that’s according to analyst, Muthuraman Ramasamy, who stated that “Apple has so much cash that they can invest in cutting-edge, world-class machinery that is typically used for aerospace and defense.”

In fact it seems that Jony Ive and his team’s influence on Apple’s products are so great that the supply chain is shaped by their needs, as opposed to them working with what they’ve got. Could this explain why Apple’s products are generally more pricier than others?

Apple To Spend $10.5 Billion Next Year To Secure Exclusive Manufacturing Deals original content from Ubergizmo.

Earlier this year, before the iPhone 5s was released, we talked about a binocular adapter for the iPhone which is said to offer your smartphone a whole new way of snapping photos and recording videos. Well, the advent of the iPhone 5s would mean that a slew of new peripherals need to be developed again to cater for the latest iPhone model, and the $99.95 iPhone Binoculars would be just the thing.

Basically, this is no adapter, but rather, they are actual field binoculars which will attach to an iPhone to deliver an easy viewing and recording experience. Via the view through the eyepiece, it will be able to transfer everything it surveys to the phone’s camera lens, where it will then transform the phone into a viewfinder so that you can share the sights with friends or to snap photos of whatever action that is going on at that point in time. There will be 36mm lenses on the binoculars that deliver 8X magnification, delivering a total of a 426-foot field of view at 1,000 yards. The included phone cases will fit the iPhone 5S/5 and 4S/4, and the field glasses also double up as a pair of standard binoculars when detached.
[ iPhone Binoculars cater for the latest iPhone 5s, too copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

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