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Apple to Rule the Digital Home by 2013?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the apple-speculation-america's-new-pastime dept.

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.'"

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  1. Quick summary: by kaos07 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe I'm just hungover but to me the article seems to be nothing but: "Blah blah blah Apple. Blah blah Apple Blah Apple Blah."

  2. Why wait until then? by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 2, Informative
    I have a PopcornHour Networked Digital Media Tank. I can play video files of any format including subtitles from any PC on the network on my HDTV, audio files from any PC on the network on my stereo.

    I can also use it to play any streaming video or audio from the net, browse Google Video and Youtube and many others from my couch... and it even has a built-in bittorrent client if I want to download media to the internal hard drive.

    All in a little box the size of an external drive enclosure... with a remote. USB inputs, network inputs, HDMI out, etc.

    All for a couple of hundred bucks. Which I'm sure is a fraction of what Apple will be charging when theirs comes to market in a few years.

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  3. Re:No they won't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You really need to see the Xbox 360 then. Aside from the failure rates, it's basically done. I've hooked it up as a media center extender, and yeah, with DVD ripping and a home media server, combined with Live which already sells/rents movies (in HD) at rates comperable to Comcast, and certainly comparable to the local video store it's perfect.

    Of the 100 people on my friends list, 30 of whom might be on at any given time, often a few are watching video's, or listening to music, or connecting to windows media center and aren't just waiting for a game. What's missing? maybe 10 TB of personal storage and some form of neigh indestructable media. I downloaded the free epsode of voltron, anjoyed the gratis rental of austin powers I from McDonalds. What has Apple bought me?

  4. Re:Yeah by Ilyon · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can laugh now, but a slow introduction of an Apple product does not guarantee eventual failure.

    Estimates indicate 1-1.5 million Apple TVs were sold in their first year on the market.

    In comparison, the iPod sold 376,000 units in their first year on the market. We're not laughing at iPod now, are we?