Apple gets ready to open the next frontier

With hints from the IT giant about a new product, Dan Buckley speculates as to whether it’ll be a bigger iPhone, a wearable device or a payments system for e-commerce transactions

Apple corporation likes nothing better than a good tease, usually made during one of its grand, defining moments or timed with a special anniversary.

It is now all of 30 years since founder Steve Jobs unveiled the iconic Apple Mac. Trumpeting that success on its website, Apple reminds us that it “was designed to be so easy to use that people could actually use it”.