Best Buy's ConnectedLife One-Ups Geek Squad

Retail writes "Best Buy is going to sell a packaged solution of Media Center plus home automation. Literally, it's a package — a box. A customer walks into a Best Buy store, delights in the demo, buys the package, and waits for its arrival in a big box about four-foot square. The package costs $15,000. For that you get a Media Center PC, Lifeware automation software from Exceptional Innovation, an Xbox 360, IP surveillance cameras, automated light switches, a thermostat and installation. It's a complicated business model, called ConnectedLife.Home, and it's bound to pit the new group against other Best Buy factions like Geek Squad."

Comments

Just wondering

[edwardpickman]

Does it come with the loan application?

$15k

[Infonaut]

Like most Best Buy customers, I should be able to afford this package. At $15,000 it's a steal, really.

I imagine...

[Baricom]

...that they check your receipt very carefully as you leave.

Re:weeeeeeee

[Mr. Flibble]

You know, Slashdot should start selling a "first post" in a box. Given how much people seem to want it, they might just sell them for $15,000 a piece.

The question would be, if the box comes with Cowboyneal inside....

Dualing Factions!

[SeaFox]

It's a complicated business model, called ConnectedLife.Home, and it's bound to pit the new group against other Best Buy factions like Geek Squad.

Wow, imagine the mêlée at the company picnics.

[unsure whether to tag this "biz" "automation" "slownewsday" or "slashertizement"]

The Target Market is Clear

[pHatidic]

For the obscenely wealthy person whose never purchased anything.

Using Microsoft software ?

[Salsaman]

So what happens when your house gets a BSOD ?

And do you have to reboot it every night ?

Re:Using Microsoft software ?

[jpardey]

Not so bad. If they have 15 grand, I'm sure they have a few flashlights. Only problem is some geek knocking at your door offering to install linux and snorting about how terrible windows is every time your house crashes. Ugh.

Re:Using Microsoft software ?

[geminidomino]

That explains Myspace...

Thankfully...

[Shemmie]

... it includes a $14,900 mail-in rebate.

Re:Thankfully...

[StikyPad]

Unfortunately, that's a european decimal notation.

What a strange procedure to put customers through.

[Junta]

waits for its arrival in a big box about four-foot square. Customers have to wait in a big box about four foot square until Best Buy delivers it???