Apple is planning for the next 1,000 years

Last month, Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a televised interview that Apple was going to be around for the next "thousand years." "We are not here for a quarter or two quarters or the next quarter or the next year to next year, we are here for [a] thousand years, and so we're not about making the most, we're about making the best," Cook said. Nowhere was that more evident than at Apple's annual developers conference, which kicked off in San Francisco on Monday. The assortment of product updates and new features unveiled at the event will be available to consumers in a few months. But a close look at some of the things Apple introduced reveal a strategy that's much more far-sighted than the next iPhone release.