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Title: Apple to "rule the home" by 2013?
Post by: gunug on May 24, 2008, 11:47:14 AM

In a web-article at the Australian ITNews website we have a company called Forrester Research prognosticating that Apple Stores will lead every one else in automating our homes by 2013:

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Forrester predicts that Apple will offer eight key products and services to connect PCs and digital content to the TV-stereo infrastructure in consumers' homes.

A "re-engineered" Apple Store will expand into in-home installation services to deliver what Forrester describes as a "fully integrated digital experience".

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/76646,apple-...me-by-2013.aspx

I'd be happy except another article at the same place is saying I could be out of a job by then so I couldn't afford to automate my house with spiffy Apple stuff:

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Charles Black, chief executive at Nasstar, claimed that in-house systems and management will soon be a thing of the past.

Companies will instead turn to the internet to deliver core computing services, thereby cutting out the cost, man-hours and productivity being sacrificed to the management of employee desktops.

This migration to a software-as-a-service model will make traditional IT departments redundant within five years, as office workers log-on to the internet to access everything they need.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/72992,tradit...ad-by-2013.aspx

 

Later: I think the trouble with this is where will innovation an improvement come from when everyone can get the same things from the web?

Title: Apple to "rule the home" by 2013?
Post by: krissel on May 25, 2008, 03:21:34 AM

Don't worry. They said the same thing about teachers a couple decades ago when they predicted kids would learn from TV or just the computer. Fat chance. People aren't self motivated enough to make that a reality.

There will always be those who need someone else to figure out how to connect in the first place or figure out what does what for them. You may be in more of an educational mode as IT.  And not everyone is willing to give up the control of all their information to an unknown entity out in the virtual world.

Title: Apple to "rule the home" by 2013?
Post by: Gregg on May 25, 2008, 04:39:22 PM

Yeah, I like my manual home just fine.