(MSNBC) -- We've heard that late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs may have been working until the day before his death, but now a report tell us just what he was focused on: A new iPhone design.
According to the folks at Bloomberg, an
individual with "knowledge of the plans" Apple has for the iPhone
revealed that Jobs "worked closely on the redesigned phone before his
death in October."
The same report offers suggestions that the
next generation of Apple's popular smartphone will have a larger screen
than prior models. Reuters has previously made the same claim,
specifying that the new device will "measure four inches from corner to
corner," which would "represent a roughly 30 percent increase in
viewing area."
As the Verge's Vlad Savov points out,
the combination of these reports suggests that "Apple's reconsideration
of the iPhone's size wasn't a post-Jobs epiphany and that the company's
longtime leader had himself seen the value in enlarging the handset to
better compete in an evolving smartphone market."
This is a bit
surprising to those of us who remember how harshly the late Apple
co-founder criticized larger smartphones in 2010, when he declared that
"no one's going to buy" such devices. Then again, compared to some of
the monsters out there now, a 4-inch screen may seem pretty tame.
