I’m offering some predictions for Apple’s year ahead, however while 2015 saw much speculation at Apple Watch, iPad Pro and Apple TV the images inside the crystal ball for 2016 appear far more opaque. (Which usually means Apple’s planning something more).

It is inevitable products will be updated, technologies and operating systems improved, so I’ll attempt to avoid obvious predictions. Apple Car will continue to generate interest, but I don’t realistically expect to be driving one in the next 12-months.

3D Touch/Force Touch

Apple managed to deploy a brand new UI element across all its products within one year. I think there’s a reason for this and I anticipate we see more 3D-informed user interfaces appear in 2016. This will start small, but I’d like to think that eventually using context- and pressure-sensitive touch there will be no need to flick through pages to find apps as they’ll all be nested within a single page and accessible using 3D virtual objects.

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