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