Elon Musk has shared his take on Apple ’s Senior Vice President Eddy Cue ’s claim about iPhones. During the US Department of Justice’s antitrust trial against Google, Cue said that artificial intelligence (AI) may make the iPhone obsolete within the next decade. The Tesla CEO responded with one word, tagging Neuralink , his neurotechnology company. In a reply to a post shared on the social media platform X (earlier Twitter) that said, “Apple's Senior Vice President of Services Eddy Cue just said: ‘You may not need an iPhone 10 years from now as crazy as it sounds,’” Musk replied with a single word “@Neuralink”. With this reply, the tech billionaire has proposed Neuralink’s brain chip as the next frontier in personal technology.
After Cue’s prediction that iPhones could become obsolete within the next 10 years, the reply from the Tesla and SpaceX CEO highlights his vision for a brain-computer interface that could ultimately render smartphones and perhaps all handheld devices unnecessary.
What Apple exec said about iPhone's future
“You may not need an iPhone 10 years from now, as crazy as it sounds,” Cue said and pointed out that sweeping technological shifts, such as the current boom in AI, may open the door to completely new competitors.
During his testimony, he further explained: “Technology shifts create these opportunities. AI is a new technology shift, and it’s creating new opportunities for new entrants.”
Cue’s remarks came amid a broader AI revolution that’s rapidly transforming industries, including smartphones, where features like voice assistants and smart photo editing have become central to the user experience.
Apart from this, Cue also revealed that Safari searches have fallen for the first time in more than 20 years during his testimony in Google’s antitrust trial. This statement has put Apple’s roughly $20 billion-per-year deal, making Google the default search engine in Safari, in jeopardy.
This agreement has been a key revenue driver for Apple’s services business, but it is now under intense scrutiny.
“I’ve lost a lot of sleep thinking about it,” Cue said about the risk of losing the revenue-sharing deal that makes Google Safari’s default search engine.
— gorklon rust (@elonmusk) May 8, 2025
After Cue’s prediction that iPhones could become obsolete within the next 10 years, the reply from the Tesla and SpaceX CEO highlights his vision for a brain-computer interface that could ultimately render smartphones and perhaps all handheld devices unnecessary.
What Apple exec said about iPhone's future
“You may not need an iPhone 10 years from now, as crazy as it sounds,” Cue said and pointed out that sweeping technological shifts, such as the current boom in AI, may open the door to completely new competitors.
During his testimony, he further explained: “Technology shifts create these opportunities. AI is a new technology shift, and it’s creating new opportunities for new entrants.”
Cue’s remarks came amid a broader AI revolution that’s rapidly transforming industries, including smartphones, where features like voice assistants and smart photo editing have become central to the user experience.
Apart from this, Cue also revealed that Safari searches have fallen for the first time in more than 20 years during his testimony in Google’s antitrust trial. This statement has put Apple’s roughly $20 billion-per-year deal, making Google the default search engine in Safari, in jeopardy.
This agreement has been a key revenue driver for Apple’s services business, but it is now under intense scrutiny.
“I’ve lost a lot of sleep thinking about it,” Cue said about the risk of losing the revenue-sharing deal that makes Google Safari’s default search engine.
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