Here is a copy of an interesting block of translated text taken out of a stated-to-be
email taken from the Japanese side of what is a purported message BETWEEN Apple's Luca Maestri, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, CC: Dan Ricccio, Vice President Hardware Engineering ...AND... Canon's Toshizo Tanaka, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, CC: Shigeyuki Matsumoto, Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer indicating that Apple wishes to heavily change its internal structure into new product groups which may include purchasing all of Canon.
Noting that Oce' is a Canon division and that Canon is mentioned a few times and that PROFESSIONAL STILLS and VIDEO cameras are also mentioned seems to indicate that Apple MAY INDEED be taking a closer look at various companies such as Canon.
There are SIGNIFICANT product insights which SEEM to confirm earlier posts I have made in other forums about Apple wanting to bring CPU, GPU and RAM chip production within Apple itself! I also see mentions of NEW professional-level APPLE SERVER and workstations systems, and mentions of plastic or metal 3D printing, in addition to mentions of "8K" and larger resolution networked display systems! I also see mentions of possible Apple forays into Telecom communications (i.e. private wireless Applecentric voice and data networks!), TV network broadcasting, self-driving vehicles and consumer robotics.
The text below is a human-translated text block where it was indicated to me that it was cut out of a larger block of email text. I won't ask and they wont tell is what is tacitly understood between me and my sources.
I DO THINK THAT THERE MAY YET BE SUBSTANCE to the rumour that Apple wishes to BUY ALL OF CANON !!!!
I suspect this is a "Shared Vision" document intended to showcase a future vision within a combined Apple and Canon entity about what products and systems are to be focused upon in the near and medium-term future. I should note that while there are some Japanese government roadblocks to a Canon takeover by Apple, if the talks have proceeded to the level of executive noted at the top of this post, then it means SOME Japanese government officials have ALREADY given tacit approval to just such a merger!
In my opinion, it also make technological sense since Canon has the 3rd largest patent profile of the major media and computer companies! Apple would receive microchip manufacturing expertise and patents, optical and other spectral sensor technology, 2D printing technology, high-end display technology and a large consumer base which already would be a captive audience for selling advanced future Apple products based upon a purchase of Canon technology! And financially, the $48 to $55 Billion US that this would cost Apple is barely a low-medium-size dip into Apple's cash bucket! It would be a bargain when compared to Apple trying to buy Sony!
Please note that the text formatting and ordered numbering is what was in the original text and is unchanged from my sources.
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Proposed Formation of Apple Professional And Consumer Imaging Systems Group
1. Commercial-level and high speed printing re: Combine Oce' division products refitted as Apple high speed six color and eight color inkjet, lasercopier, high speed scanning, high speed OCR, and direct-to-plate + offset printing groups.
2. Small office to commercial wide format Canon inkjet printing systems with emphasis upon higher profit margins doing more than four color inkjet, high quality scanning, medium speed OCR systems and high longevity inks.
3. Commercial production run capable metal powder deposition 3D printing, multicolor reinforced composite 3D printing from 500 x 500 x 500 mm at up to 2000 x 2000 x 2000 mm sizes.
4. Home office and industrial design oriented desktop 3D metal powder deposition 3D printing, multicolor reinforced composite 3D printing at up to 300 x 300 x 300 mm sizes.
5. Professional stills and video systems and home + commercial security video systems using mirrorless, global shutter optical and multiband sensors. Emphasis on worldwide support and service network. Requires high visibility media saturation of products.
6. Consumer stills and video products: Includes standalone interchangeable lens still photo and video cameras, iPad, iPhone, xBook, Apple Watch using integrated sensory software and onboard compute for 8K or greater resolution sensors.
7. Professional displays for flat, curved, square and 3D volumetric use: High refresh rates at 8K and greater resolutions going up to 1000 ppi and onboard stereoscopic vision recognition.
8. Smart consumer displays for flat, curved and 3D volumetric at 8K resolution minimum with emphasis on Apple TV models up to 83 inches. All require onboard stereoscopic cameras. Some display systems will be all-in-one compute systems but other Apple TV products will allow for end user initiated computational lego-brick addons. Apple TV to be embedded with rich media oriented onboard intelligent assistants, onboard cameras + videophones, embedded connections to Apple Broadcast and Gaming Network, fully integrated with iTunes.
Proposed Formation of Apple Consumer and Professional Wireless Communications Group
1. Apple-only secured carrier level global reach enhanced RF and 5G+ communications network for low-bandwidth IoT and long range + high bandwidth voice, commercial broadband data, broadcast video.
2. Apple-only consumer oriented global reach enhanced RF and 5G+ voice, data and broadcast network with carrier class communications for consumers on monthly variable and fixed price plans. Wireless data and video services to be in 20 Gigabyte or 10 hour increments. Prices starting at $25 per month for basic 20 gigabytes of data and video.
3. Apple-only wide area high atmosphere autonomous dirigible RF and 5G+ antenna + transceiver + ground mesh network systems for global voice, data, broadcast: Expect that FAA approval will be within defined timeline for 60,000 ft to 70,000 ft operation balancing adverse weather protection and long range, high bandwidth communications limits. Flight level has little commercial and military air traffic to contend with for faster FAA approval.
Proposed Formation of Apple Manufacturing Systems Group
1. Apple-only high capacity beyond NAND memory manufacturing using 3D layers for systems memory, general fixed storage and removable storage systems with major emphasis on advanced error correction and encryption.
2. Apple-only multicore 3D stacked combined CPU and GPU chip manufacturing for all Apple mobile, desktop and server systems. Emphasis on power efficient, many core, 3D stacked technology and combining CPU and GPU functions at same clock speed.
3. Apple-only enhanced RF and 5G+ communications chip design and manufacturing combining long range to upper atmosphere + local wireless gigabit to terabit WAN and LAN operations. Emphasis for long range, high speed adverse weather air-to-groundstation and ground-to-airstation voice, data and video communications at 4G+ speeds and local mesh networks at 5G+ speeds. Emphasis on upgradeable realtime end-to-end encryption for all voice and data. Support all enhanced IPV6 security, prioritization and IoT communications extensions.
4. Apple-only 8K or greater resolution multiple aspect ratio sensor production with onboard stacked signal processor or combined CPU and GPU. Emphasis towards onboard signal processor or combined CPU and GPU with accelerated vision recognition, builtin infrared nightvision and optical low light sensors to all consumer and professional sensor products.
5. Inhouse production and direct sales of compact commercial server class systems for lights out operations. Extensible lego-block like computation bricks with optical 10 gigabit and greater communications and networking. Emphasis on small physical size, power efficiency, many core, many threaded OS and built in multiple intelligent agents software. Will allow local server, server farms, scale-up and scale-out scenarios. Limited need for server and network administrators using multiple end user friendly intelligent agents for initial setup and ongoing administration. Need to go beyond the capabilities of and make such simpler to use than Active Directory!
6. Inhouse production and direct sales of professional workstation class systems with very high resolution 8K or greater resolution flat, curved, square and 3D volumetric displays. Extensible lego-block computation and display engine bricks for desktop and studio use.
7. Consumer products manufacturing such as iPhone, iPad, xBook, Apple Watch, desktop, intelligent 8K or greater resolution TV's. May move inhouse but most likely continuance of Foxconn relationship for the foreseeable future. Possible inhouse high automation TV manufacturing, beyond NAND memory, combined cpu and gpu, 5G+ chip production and professional systems production facility in Nevada, Idaho or Utah.
Proposed Formation of Apple Intelligent Systems Group
1. Intelligent agent systems extending Siri into the office, shop floor, lab and customer space with realtime voice and text translation. Emphasis on highly fluid and realistic customer service experience.
2. Intelligent location finding and positioning systems for precise know-where-i-am and containing automated, precise know-what-it-is sensory software and hardware. Large object human assisted object and environment recognition database construction is required.
3. Autonomous commercial mobility systems for automated shipping, receiving, delivery of packages and personnel in varied and fast paced environs. Will require multiple hardware accelerated computation systems and infield update of onboard object and environment recognition databases. Will include driverless on-highway commercial transport vehicles and autonomous aerial delivery systems.
4. Consumer level driverless car and trucks in group shared, individually leased or purchased and corporate fleet-use scenarios. Will require multiple hardware accelerated computation systems and infield update of onboard object and environment recognition databases. Emphasis towards onboard intelligent agents with rich media communications and multiuser entertainment and passenger comfort systems. Will require very fast external charging or autonomously replaceable quick-change power pack systems.
5. Autonomous high agility robotic systems that are multilimbed or multiwheeled autonomous. Continuation of product development to human-and-beyond levels of dexterity and flexibility. Current emphasis on home automation and consumer level human assistance products such as beyond Roomba + advanced laundry and kitchen duties. Unassisted stairclimbing and onboard object and environment recognition is largest obstacle but not insurmountable. Wide viewpoint stereoscopic and multiband optical and radar, or lidar machine vision will be required. Will require multiple hardware accelerated computation systems and infield update of onboard object and environment recognition databases.
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YUP!!! This is a pretty BIG OUTLINE of what I think looks to be a viable outline of future Apple product development and Apple PLANS for the PURCHASE of Canon!
I do note the CC: of the chief technology officers of Apple and Canon indicates that TECHNICAL ASPIRATIONS were included as part of a general division of products group matrix which is probably a spreadsheet that was done FIRST by the two Finance guys and then sub-tasked to the technical people! The text to me is definitely a bit language-sensitive where some technical terms seemed confusingly placed, which in my eyes supports LIKELY Japanese-to-English translation problems.
That gives me a decent bit of support to its authenticity!
Also note the mention of xBook TWICE in the document! Is this an accidental disclosure of an upcoming Apple high-performance laptop because xBook is NOT YET in any Apple announcements or on its website!
NOW If I get a letter from Canon OR Apple lawyers to take this down then we DEFINITELY know its REAL !!!!
I had asked about a timeline and I was informed that none is/was outlined in the original email text.
REMEMBER! YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST !!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
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