One of Apple’s most senior team has said customers may not need an iPhone in 10 years time. Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, was speaking during the latest step in the ongoing Google monopoly trial related to control of the search market.

Microsoft’s Bing or DuckDuckGo probably won’t disrupt Google’s dominance in search, said Apple senior vice president of services Eddy Cue — but AI services easily could.

Leaving aside AI for a second, just stop and think about your relationship with your iPhone or Android. It's deep. It's personal. You hold it and cradle it like a loved one – you certainly stare at your phone screen longer than you hold any other human's gaze. Is that relationship going to be any different in 10 years?