Apple to Rule the Digital Home by 2013? 223
Stony Stevenson writes to tell us that a new study from Forrester Research is taking a crack at what seems to have become a hobby for so many, predicting Apple's market strategy. Specifically, Forrester is predicting that Apple will become the 'hub of the digital home 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.'"
Yeah (Score:5, Funny)
I for one welcome our new over 1 button overloards (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yeah (Score:5, Funny)
Hell, think of the marketing! "You have two options of getting your media; via iTMS, or for free via BitTorrent" I'd buy that shit in a heartbeat
Re:Once you go Mac... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Yeah (Score:5, Funny)
Apple is as Apple Does (Score:5, Funny)
It's fun and easy to do, and you soon learn that you can do just as good a job as Forrester or Gartner or Cringley, and do a lot better than Metcalf, Michael Dell or Dvorak (not the keyboard layout, as even a keyboard layout can provide better market analysis than that guy).
Bold predictions! You can make bold predictions -
"Steve Jobs will buy Adobe!"
"Steve Wozniak will mary a famous comedienne!"
"iPhone will be the first earth technology bough by alien visitors as it's superior to their own!"
"Apple will shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders!"
- Ok, I admit that it's unlikely Woz will marry a famous comedienne, but other than that, as long as it's outlandish and over-the-top, there's a one-in-a-million chance it might come true, and as Terry Pratchett readers, we know one-in-a-million chances crop up nine times out of ten.
Articles like this are just the encouragement newly fledged Apple pundits need to start rolling their own... and it's a small step from speculation to rumor-mongering! That's where the action's really at.
(And, you didn't hear it from me, but the next rev of iTunes will knock your socks clean off, employing bayesian fuzzy-logic heuristic inference engines to predict with 89% accuracy what you want to hear before you hear it, or so I heard from a little bird who's working on "Project BHA-II")
Re:No they won't (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yeah (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure why people seem to think it's taboo to talk about how Apple TV didn't make the cut. So not all their products are going to be perfect - big deal. The road to success is not always paved with the detritus of your earlier home runs. Sometimes you have to work harder.
I'm not sure if the premise of the article is valid, but I do believe that if someone can make the media center revolution happen, it's Apple.
Following the iPod and iPhone trend... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I for one welcome our new over 1 button overloa (Score:5, Funny)
2013? (Score:4, Funny)
It's kind of hard to rule the digital home if there aren't any.
Who knew the Mayan's hated Apple fanboys?
house full of dumb! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Quick summary: (Score:1, Funny)
Remember those ads from the 1950s promising the easy life if you only buy their special new product, firmly targeting the (at the time) new middle class? That's Apple, today.
Re:Yeah (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Quick summary: (Score:5, Funny)
In the end it doesn't really matter what technical devices I have in the house 2013. My wife still rules the remote control with an iron grip.