India, May 8 -- In a surprising revelation during the US Department of Justice's antitrust case against Google, Apple's services chief Eddy Cue suggested that the iPhone could become obsolete within the next decade, marking the first time a senior Apple executive has publicly entertained such a possibility.

Testifying in the ongoing trial, Cue defended Apple's lucrative search engine partnership with Google-reportedly worth around $20 billion annually-but his comments quickly veered into a bigger-picture thinking about the future of technology.

"You may not need an iPhone 10 years from now, as crazy as it sounds," said Cue, according to Bloomberg. "The only way you truly have true competition is when you have technology shifts."

While ...