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hey everyone I'm car is soo boy thanks for watching the future of a show where we spotlight a major company and find out some of the things that could happen in the next year right now we're talking about Apple and who better to discuss apple with us then staff writer Josh Lowensohn who covers Apple thanks for joining us Josh a pleasure let's talk first about perhaps some new products that we may see in 2013 what do you think sure I mean as a consumer company the first thing everybody thinks of is things like the iPhone and the iPad right but of course the big thing everybody wants to know about is what's next sure a lot of the rumors are really pointed to two things some sort of streaming radio product to compete with Pandora and a television set mm-hmm we've heard rumors of TV sets for a long time though did you sure we actually see some hardware next year you know there's two really warring camps one group really thinks there's gonna be a TV any other things there's going to be kind of a more advanced cable box something a little bit beyond what they're already doing I'm kind of in that second camp that thinks that something like a TV set it's a little bit harder to sell right off than it would be to do something that could really replace the cable box people to have at home and you can see how a streaming music service would fit very nicely with itunes yeah exactly it but in asti that's not really like a sexy or exciting product sure it's really to compete more with upstarts like Pandora RDI Oh Spotify these things that are really kind of taken the idea of purchasing music and making it more of a subscription feature now when we do talk about existing products you know the iphone ipad ipod what kind of changes will we see next year i mean anything really monumental or just you know a little tweak here and there i think to 2013's going to be the year that week in part because 2012 was so much of a new product the one thing that really did not get a big big overhaul was the ipad we did see the mini though we did but that's almost a separate product the big big thing I expect in 2013 is a real kind of redesign of the ipad we had both third and fourth generation models this year but it was basically the ipad 2 with some new screen technology and some beefed up specs sure i think they're definitely improvements to be made in the form factor that they could push out very exciting now in 2012 we saw a lot of leadership changes I imagine that going to trickle over into the next year what are your thoughts on on management sure they really did have a lot of the big moves last month in November that really kind of put their executive team and do three kind of power structures and three big groups including technologies and iOS software the big focus i think is really going to be tightening that down i don't think we're going to see a lot of changes in terms of movement the one big thing to keep an eye on is who they hire to replace their outgoing retail chief they haven't announced anybody yet they're they're on a search right now I suspect we'll see something very early next year that kind of shows who they want to be leading their retail group and speaking of leadership we're now what maybe 15 months since the passing of steve jobs so 2013 will be a full year without him how is this company going to continue to move forward without his leadership without his presence and without his ideas in the pipeline I guess what do you see in that in that camper in that front sure I think a lot of focus has been on the product pipeline things that were in in production and ready to go when Steve was still around I think what Tim Cook will continue to do and what Apple even did a little bit for Steve Jobs came on it was really take a look at products that needed some improvement if you look at some of the big hits they've had including the iPod the iPad in the iphone it's really been taking something that someone else has done and making it better yeah and I don't think that's going to change all right well a lot to look forward to definitely Apple TV sounds exciting yes thank you so much Josh Lowensohn I'm Kara Tsuboi thanks for watching the future oh